Train Schedule for the New Haven Branch Line Through Pelham Manor in April 1886

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The New Haven Branch Line once carried passengers through Pelham Manor where there stood a little Depot at the end of the Esplanade on land now covered by I-95. The commuter schedule for the so-called Harlem River Branch line periodically appeared in New York City newspapers. Below is such a schedule published in the April 26, 1886 issue of the New-York Tribune.

"HARLEM RIVER BRANCH.

NEW-YORK, NEW-HAVEN AND HARTFORD R.R.

Trains leave Harlem River Station, corner 132d st., and Lincoln-ave., near Third Avenue Bridge across Harlem River (reached by Third Avenue Elevated Railroad) daily except Sundays at 6:45, 7:50, 9:10, 10, 11:55 a.m., 2:10, 3:55, 4:40, 5:40, 6:40 and 8 p.m. for Port Morris, Casanova (Oak Point), Hunt's Point, West Farms, Van Nest, West Chester, Timpson's, Bay Chester (Pelham Bay), Bartow (City Island), Pelham Manor and New Rochelle, connecting at New-Rochelle with trains for all points on the main line of the New-York, New-Haven and Hartford Railroad, Shore Line and Air-Line Divisions; New-Canaan, Middletown, New-Britain and Sutfield Branches; and Boston and all points East.

Midnight train for New-Rochelle and all intermediate stations at 12:10 a.m. daily, except Mondays.

Sunday trains for New-Rochelle and all intermediate stations at 12 noon and 9:30 p.m., the latter train connecting at New-Rochelle with way trains to Grand Central Depot and Stamford."

Source: Harlem River Branch, New-York Tribune, Apr. 26, 1886, p. 6, col. 5.

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