Manitou station is a limited-service stop on the

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's Hudson Line. It serves the hamlet of Manitou in the southwestern corner of Philipstown in Putnam County,

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. The station is open part-time, serving one weekday peak hour train in each direction and six weekend trains each direction. It is from

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and travel time to Grand Central is approximately one hour, 16 minutes. The Manitou station is one of three stations – along with Breakneck Ridge on the Hudson Line and Appalachian Trail on the Harlem Line – that receives limited passenger service. Like these stations, it serves mainly

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visiting nearby state parks in the Hudson Highlands. There is no elevated platform and facilities at the station, one of two on the line adjacent to a

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, are limited to a small shelter with the current schedule posted inside. The station predates the merger of

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and

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s. This station is the least used station on the Hudson Line, with only 42 passengers per week in 2018.

History

The station closed on July 1, 1973 along with several other stations in

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's Metropolitan Region. It reopened in 1983.

Station layout

The station has two low-level side platforms, each long enough for just one door of one car to receive and discharge passengers.

In popular culture

The Manitou station was featured in the television series '' Girls'', in the episode "Video Games," in which Lena Dunham's character Hannah accompanies Jessa on a visit to her estranged father.

References

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Station from Google Maps Street View
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