RE: (erielack) Erie Main / Graham Line

["Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>]

Alan Samostie asked:

> Jog my memory here... what was the reason for abandoning the 
> Erie Main through Monroe, Greycourt and Goshen?  Was the 
> change initiated by CR, or by NJT/MTA?

NJT would have no role, as it's all in New York. The Main Line was owned by
CR, I believe, and has no need to maintain the line. I guess Metro-North
didn't want to buy the line?

 
> Was Chester also a station stop?  Were there other intermediate stops?

I thought Chester, Goshen and Newburgh were stops?

 
> Was the Middletown station relocated as a result?

They added a simple Middletown station (think bus shelter) along the Graham
Line in the vicinity of Route 17 to substitute for that station.


 
> The Graham Line seems much longer and more sparsely 
> populated.  Were Monroe and Goshen (fair-sized towns) just 
> conisdered "acceptable losses" by NJT / MTA, or did the 
> commuter agencies oppose the change?  Have passenger 
> boardings at the new Graham Line stations risen or fallen as 
> compared with the old Main Line stops?

I don't know, but I would assume the former - "acceptable losses" - those
folks could drive north a short distance and pick up the Graham Line.

	- Paul

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