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{{Infobox station
| name                  = Scarborough
| style                 = MNRR
| style2                = Hudson
| logo                  = 
| logo_size             = 
| image                 = Scarborough Train Station.tif
| image_upright         = 1.35
| image_caption         = View from Scarborough Park
| alt                   = Green train station overpass by a river and brick apartment building
| address               = 156 Scarborough Station Road, [[Briarcliff Manor, New York]]
| country               = 
| coordinates           = {{coord|41.1385|-73.8664|region:US-NY_type:landmark_scale:5000|display=inline,title}}
| mapframe              = yes
| mapframe-frame-width  = 300
| mapframe-frame-height = 180
| line                  = [[Hudson Line (Metro-North)|Hudson Line]]
| connections           = 
| platform              = 2 [[side platform]]s
| tracks                = 4
| electrified           = 700[[volt|V]] ([[Direct current|DC]]) [[third rail]]
| parking               = 420 spaces<ref name="2007Plan"/>
| bicycle               = 
| passengers            = {{rail pass box|system=Metro-North|pass_year=2018|pass_rank=60 of [[List of Metro-North Railroad stations|109]]<ref name="mta2018" />|passengers=840<ref name="mta2018">{{cite book|title=METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS|date=April 2019|publisher=Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:[[Metro-North Railroad]]|page=6}}</ref>|<!--pass_percent=0-->}}
| opened                = 
| rebuilt               = 2007
| ADA                   = Yes
| code                  = 
| owned                 = 
| zone                  = 5
| services              = {{Adjacent stations|system=MNRR|line=Hudson lower|left=Ossining|right=Philipse Manor}}
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services        = {{Adjacent stations|system=New York Central Railroad|line=Hudson Division|left=Ossining|right=Philipse Manor}}
}}
'''Scarborough station''' is a [[commuter rail]] stop on the [[Metro-North Railroad]]'s [[Hudson Line (Metro-North)|Hudson Line]], located in the [[Scarborough-on-Hudson|Scarborough]] area of [[Briarcliff Manor, New York]]. Trains leave for [[New York City]] every hour on weekdays, and about every 25 minutes during [[rush hour]]. It is {{convert|28.7|mi}} from [[Grand Central Terminal]], and the trip there takes about 50 minutes. Trains of [[electric multiple units]] serve the station. The Scarborough station is within walking distance of most houses in the neighborhood.

Construction of the Scarborough station dates back to the 1860s, when the first station building stood along the [[Hudson River Railroad]], which was completed in 1851 and served areas from New York City to [[Rensselaer, New York|Rensselaer]].<ref name="Drury"/> It became part of the [[Metropolitan Transportation Authority]]'s Metro-North Railroad in 1983, following the devolution of commuter rail service from [[Conrail]]. The station was included in a revitalization plan in 2007 to help serve its commuters. The 1899 station building has housed the Scarborough post office since 1961.

==History==
{{multiple image | align = left | direction = vertical | width = 180 | footer = Former station building and current post office c. 1970s and in 2014 | image1 = Scarborough Post Office.jpg | alt1 = A one-story post office building | image2 = Scarborough Post Office (2).JPG | alt2 = A one-story post office building }}
{{multiple image | align = right | direction = vertical | width = 180 | footer = Early images of the Scarborough station | image1 = Scarborough Train Station (11).jpeg | alt1 = A riverside train line and station | image2 = Scarborough Train Station (12).jpeg | alt2 = A small riverside train station }}
The first [[station building]] was built by the [[Hudson River Railroad]] sometime before 1860,<ref name="1860age"/> and acquired by the [[New York Central and Hudson River Railroad]] in 1869. The station was named "Scarborough" until 1867. On July 16 of that year and until November 26, the area was officially called Weskora. The Scarborough station was accordingly changed by local government officials to "Weskora", and changed back in December 1867.<ref name="Weekly"/>

The Scarborough post office dates to December 3, 1864, when the U.S. Postal Service established a "catch and throw" office there in the same small building as the earlier established station. A hook was installed along the tracks to hang mail bags to be grabbed by workers on the passing trains for outgoing mail distribution; in turn workers threw mail bags off the train for incoming mail distribution.<ref name="Gazette"/> The first postmaster of the Scarborough Post Office facility was James Van Velsor who had an annual salary of $200 (${{inflation|US|200|1873|r=-2|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation-year|US}}{{Inflation-fn|US}}) in 1873.<ref name="1873register"/>

A large thunderstorm occurred in the area on August 4, 1898; the newly renovated station building, built in 1893, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. At the time, the building also housed Scarborough's post office. Mail was destroyed although registered mail and money was being kept at the postmaster's house each night; damage amounted to $5,000 (${{Inflation|US|5000|1898|r=-2|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation-year|US}}{{Inflation-fn|US}}) and the post office opened the next day, with mail being held in a pushcart.<ref name="Thunderstorm"/> The building was reconstructed identically to its predecessor.<ref name="Gazette"/>

In 1909, after the community of Scarborough was incorporated into the village of Briarcliff Manor in 1906, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad put up a sign reading "Briarcliff West" at the station.<ref name="Weekly"/> Soon afterward, attributed to the neighborhood's pride over their name,<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp|page=54}} that sign was thrown into the Hudson River and replaced with the original Scarborough sign.<ref name="1977history"/>{{rp|page=15}}<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=101}}

In April 1931, Siamese King [[Prajadhipok]] and Queen [[Rambai Barni]] traveled from [[Bangkok]]<ref name="NYEvePost"/> to Ophir Hall (currently [[Reid Hall, Manhattanville College|Reid Hall]] of [[Manhattanville College]]). The couple had flown from Japan to Vancouver and took a train to Chicago. From Chicago, they took another train, departing at 10:30&nbsp;a.m. on the 21st and arriving at noon on the 22nd, and the trip took 25 hours; the king had requested the train travel slowly, as he was recovering from bronchitis and malaria. The train arrived at the Scarborough station, where journalists, spectators, and video and still photographers met them, along with one of their hosts. They were later driven across the county to stay at Ophir Hall for about six weeks in order for a [[cataract]] operation to be performed on the king's left eye. State troopers and a squad of [[New York Central]] policemen were stationed at Scarborough to ensure a smooth transfer.<ref name="NYCLmag"/><ref name="SchGaz"/> At the time, the king was an [[absolute monarch]]; he later became the country's first [[constitutional monarch]].

The Briarcliff Manor village government purchased the 1899<ref name="BuildDate">{{cite news|title=NYCRR Valuation Department Pre-Inventory Field Notes, Account #16|date= September 16, 1920|page=173}}</ref> station building in 1961<ref name="Depots"/> to house its Scarborough post office. The building was used as a filming location in 1966, in the first episode of the television soap opera ''[[Dark Shadows]]'' as the [[Collinsport]] train station.

As with the rest of the Hudson Line, the Scarborough station became a [[Penn Central]] station once the New York Central and [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]s merged in 1968. Penn Central's continuous financial despair throughout the 1970s forced them to turn over their commuter service to the [[Metropolitan Transportation Authority]]. The station and the railroad were turned over to [[Conrail]] in 1976, and eventually became part of the MTA's [[Metro-North Railroad]] in 1983.<ref name="Drury"/> In 2007, the MTA overhauled the station, installing new systems such as platforms, canopies, shelters, enclosed staircases, lighting, and benches. The station's overpass was demolished and a replacement was built with elevators on either side.<ref name="Overhaul"/> The new overpass was designed in a less modern style and now has glass-sided elevators. During the construction, Metro-North built a temporary wooden station to the station's south.<ref name="Upgrades"/>

In 2010, Metro-North began a program called [[Arts for Transit]]. As part of the program, an art installation was created for the station. The work, titled ''Untitled with Sky'', comprises six stained glass windows and twelve seats covered in mosaic tiles. [[Liliana Porter]] and [[Ana Tiscornia]] worked with [[Willet Hauser Architectural Glass]] to create the installations. The windows were originally intended for the overpass, where they were installed for a short time. Around 2011, the windows were moved to the southbound platform.<ref name="Art"/> Also in 2011, [[Hurricane Irene]] caused a mudslide onto the tracks near the Scarborough station; it damaged {{convert|300|ft|m}} of third rail.<ref name="Irene"/>

Local community members have been maintaining the inside and outside of the building through labor and monetary donations under the group name "Save Scarborough", and brought attention to the post office's 150th anniversary, celebrated on December 3, 2014.<ref name="BMSHSNews2014"/> About twenty members began their work around 2010, concerned that the downsizing [[United States Postal Service]] would close the Scarborough post office, which is a branch of the Briarcliff Manor post office. {{As of|2014}}, the group has spent almost $4,000 in various renovations, upkeep, and improvement costs.<ref name="Gazette"/>
<!-- - The following is not currently backed up by a source (do not delete): While the present historical building needs its outside lead-based paint to be removed and repainted with currently available paint products, the structure, made of solid oak beams, cedar siding, and mahogany trim is in very good condition. A fundraising campaign to raise the necessary $65,000 to renovate the exterior will be conducted during 2015-2016.-->

===Notable passengers===
Ridership is moderate, relative to the other Hudson Line stations, with an average of 865 inbound passengers on weekdays and 233 on weekends in 2007.<ref name="ridership-pow"/> Historical ridership included many notable passengers, including [[William Rockefeller]], [[John D. Rockefeller]], C. C. Clarke (the First Vice President of the Hudson River Railroad), [[Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard]], [[Walter William Law]], and the [[Briarcliff Manor, New York#Historic|Webb family]].<ref name="Thunderstorm"/>

==Station layout==
[[File:PrajadhipokScarborough.png|thumb|Siamese King [[Prajadhipok]] arriving at the station in 1931]]
[[File:Scarborough, NY, train station (2).jpg|thumb|alt=A train station overpass and incoming train|Old overpass; from Scarborough Park, 2003]]
The station's parking lot has had a valet service since the station overhaul in 2007. The ongoing construction took up parking spaces, which spurred the village government to institute valet parking. The parking service has remained since the construction finished. A private contractor has an agreement with the village for three employees to manage that part of the lot. An additional section of the station parking lot is privately owned. The valet service has no extra charge.<ref name="ValetParking"/>

===Platform and track configuration===
All of the tracks are powered with a [[third rail]], except Track 1. The station has two high-level [[side platform]]s, each eight cars long.<ref name=Overhaul /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2647944/Operations-Metro-North-Railroad-Track-Charts.pdf|title=Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015|date=2015|publisher=Metro-North Railroad|access-date=January 28, 2019}}</ref>{{Rp|3}}

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|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100|Mezzanine
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|-
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=50 rowspan=7 valign=top|'''P'''<br>Platform level
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|-
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|-
|Track '''3'''
|← {{rcb|MNRR|Hudson|inline=yes}} toward {{mnrr|Croton–Harmon}} <small>({{mnrr|Ossining}})</small>
|-
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|Track '''1'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|← {{rcb|MNRR|Hudson|inline=yes}} express service do not stop here<br>← {{rcb|Amtrak|Empire Corridor|inline=box}} [[Empire Corridor]] services do not stop here
|-
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|Track '''2'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|{{0|←}} {{rcb|Amtrak|Empire Corridor|inline=box}} [[Empire Corridor]] services do not stop here →<br>{{0|←}} {{rcb|MNRR|Hudson|inline=yes}} express service do not stop here →
|-
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|Track '''4'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;"|{{0|←}} {{rcb|MNRR|Hudson|inline=yes}} toward {{mnrr|Grand Central}} <small>({{mnrr|Philipse Manor}})</small> →
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|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;text-align:center;" colspan=2|<small>[[Side platform]] {{access icon}}</small>
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths="155px" heights="120px" perrow="5" mode="packed">
File:Scarborough Train Station (2).jpg|alt=Stained glass windows in a train station shelter|''Untitled with Sky''
File:Scarborough Train Station (3).jpg|alt=Train station and tracks|View from tracks
File:Scarborough Train Station (9).jpg|alt=View of tracks from a train station overpass|View from overpass
File:Scarborough Train Station (8).tif|alt=Train station overpass|Station entrance
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em|refs=
<!--<ref name="Stats">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/commutemetro-north.html|title=Hudson Line|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=July 21, 2014}}</ref>-->
<ref name="2007Plan">{{cite web|title=Comprehensive Plan - Village of Briarcliff Manor|url=http://www.briarcliffmanor.org/Pages/BriarcliffManorNY_CompPlan/Comprehensive%20Plan%20Final.pdf|date=November 2007|publisher=Village of Briarcliff Manor|access-date=May 10, 2014}}</ref>
<ref name="ridership-pow">{{cite web|url=http://pedestrianobservations.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mnrr_2007_ridership.pdf|title=MTA Metro-North Passenger Counts 2007|publisher=[[Metropolitan Transportation Authority]]|work=Pedestrian Observations Wordpress|date=May 2011|access-date=August 26, 2014}}</ref>
<!--<ref name="NYTScarborough">{{cite news|last=Brenner|first=Elsa|title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Scarborough; Where Plutocrats Enjoyed a River View|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-scarborough-where-plutocrats-enjoyed-river-view.html|access-date=May 5, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 30, 2002}}</ref>
<ref name="MTASchedule">{{cite web|title=Schedules & Fares|url=http://as0.mta.info/mnr/schedules/sched_form.cfm|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|access-date=December 22, 2014}}</ref>-->
<ref name="Drury">{{cite book|last=Drury|first=George H.|title=The Historical Guide to North American Railroads: Histories, Figures, and Features of more than 160 Railroads Abandoned or Merged since 1930|publisher=Kalmbach Publishing|date=1994|location=Waukesha, Wisconsin|pages=206–217|isbn=0-89024-072-8}}</ref>
<ref name="1860age">{{cite news|title=The Collision on the Hudson River Railroad.; Coroner's Inquest at Yonkers--Testimony Conflicting.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1860/01/24/news/collision-hudson-river-railroad-coroner-s-inquest-yonkers-testimony-conflicting.html|access-date=August 11, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=January 24, 1860}}</ref>
<ref name="Weekly">{{cite news|last=Pattison|first=Robert B.|newspaper=Briarcliff Weekly|title=A History of Scarborough|date=October 5, 1939}}</ref>
<ref name="Gazette">{{cite news|title=150th Anniversary of Scarborough Post Office to be Marked|newspaper=The Gazette|date=November 27, 2014|page=8|oclc=35004776}}</ref>
<ref name="1873register">{{cite book|title=Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States|date=1874|publisher=[[United States Department of the Interior]]|location=Washington, D.C.|page=814|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4c0AQAAMAAJ}}</ref>
<ref name="Thunderstorm">{{cite news|title=Post Office in a Pushcart.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/08/05/102565958.pdf|access-date=August 11, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=August 5, 1898}}</ref>
<ref name="1952history">{{cite book|title=Our Village: Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. 1902 to 1952|publisher=Historical Committee of the Semi–Centennial|year=1952|lccn=83238400|oclc=24569093}}</ref>
<ref name="1977history">{{cite book|title=A Village Between Two Rivers: Briarcliff Manor|year=1977|publisher=Monarch Publishing, Inc.|editor=Midge Bosak|location=White Plains, New York|oclc=6163930}}</ref>
<ref name="Changing Landscape">{{cite book|last=Cheever|first=Mary|title=The Changing Landscape: A History of Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough|year=1990|publisher=Phoenix Publishing|location=West Kennebunk, Maine|isbn=0-914659-49-9|oclc=22274920|lccn=90045613|ol=1884671M}}</ref>
<ref name="NYEvePost">{{cite news|title=The King and Queen of Siam, Traveling Incognito as Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Sukhodaya|url=http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%2011/New%20York%20Evening%20Post/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201931%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Post%201931%20Grayscale%20-%202954.pdf|access-date=April 4, 2015|newspaper=[[New York Evening Post]]|date=April 25, 1931}}</ref>
<ref name="NYCLmag">{{cite journal|title=King and Queen of Siam Ride on N.Y. Central Special Train|journal=The New York Central Lines Magazine|date=May 1931|volume=12|number=2|pages=7–8|url=http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/magazine/images/magazine-0531.pdf|access-date=April 4, 2015}}</ref>
<ref name="SchGaz">{{cite news|last=Hackler|first=Victor T.|title=Siam's Royal Household at Purchase, N.Y.|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19310423&id=310hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=14UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3399,6461105&hl=en|access-date=April 4, 2015|work=[[The Schenectady Gazette]]|date=April 23, 1931|volume=37|number=176}}</ref>
<ref name="Depots">{{cite news|last=Folsom|first=Merrill|title=Old Depots Converted to Stores, Banks and Church|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1961/12/04/119430010.pdf|access-date=August 11, 2014|work=The New York Times|date=December 4, 1961}}</ref>
<ref name="Overhaul">{{cite news|title=Station Reconstruction Begins at Ossining, Scarborough and Philipse Manor|url=http://www.mta.info/press-release/metro-north/station-reconstruction-begins-ossining-scarborough-and-philipse-manor|access-date=June 17, 2014|work=MTA Press Releases|publisher=Metropolitan Transportation Authority|date=December 11, 2007}}</ref>
<ref name="Upgrades">{{cite news|last1=Valenti|first1=Ken|title=Metro-North upgrades at 3 Hudson River stations improve form, function|url=http://archive.lohud.com/article/20110729/NEWS01/107290334/Metro-North-upgrades-3-Hudson-River-stations-improve-form-function|access-date=July 13, 2014|work=[[The Journal News]]|date=July 29, 2011}}</ref>
<ref name="Art">{{cite web|title=Arts for Transit and Urban Design|url=http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=mnr&line=hudsonline&artist=1&station=7|work=Mta.info|access-date=July 13, 2014}}</ref>
<ref name="Irene">{{cite news|title=East Coast transit services slowly returning following hurricane|url=http://www.metro-magazine.com/news/story/2011/08/east-coast-licking-wounds-resuming-some-services.aspx|access-date=August 11, 2014|work=[[Metro Magazine]]|date=August 29, 2011}}</ref>
<ref name="BMSHSNews2014">{{cite web|title=2014 Late Fall Newsletter|url=http://briarcliffhistory.org/uploads/3/1/5/7/3157610/bmsh.nl.web.2014.12.pdf|publisher=[[Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society]]|page=3|access-date=December 22, 2014|year=2014}}</ref>
<ref name="ValetParking">{{cite news|last=Bonvento|first=Robert|title=V is for Valet… Taking the Stress Out of Commuting in Scarborough|url=http://www.riverjournalonline.com/villages/briarcliff-manor/1871-v-is-for-valet-taking-the-stress-out-of-commuting-in-scarborough.html|access-date=August 11, 2014|newspaper=River Journal|date=May 20, 2011}}</ref>
}}

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*[http://subwaynut.com/mnr/scarborough/index.php Scarborough Metro-North Station (TheSubwayNut)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPdG469bd5c Video of King Prajadhipok at the station in 1931]

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