page_title: List of Metro-North Railroad stations
section_title: Station origins
hierarchical_section_title: List of Metro-North Railroad stations / Station origins
caption_attribution_description: English: The Main Concourse of Grand Central Terminal, as seen on a weekday afternoon, May 2014.Español: El Hall Principal de la Terminal Grand Central en 2014. Français&#160;: Le Hall Principal de le Grand Central Terminal en 2014.
context_page_description: Metro-North Railroad is a commuter railroad system serving two of the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, and Orange Counties in New York, as well Fairfield and New Haven Counties in Connecticut. It was established by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1983 to acquire operation of all commuter rail service in New York and Connecticut from Conrail, which itself had been formed in 1976 through the merging of a number of financially troubled railroads, and previously operated commuter railroad service under contract from the MTA.
context_section_description: As with many commuter railroad systems of the late-20th Century in the United States, the stations exist along lines that were inherited from other railroads of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Stations on the east side of the Hudson River were originally part of either New York Central Railroad or New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, both of which became part of Penn Central Railroad in 1968 and 1969 respectively. Stations on lines on the west side of the Hudson River were originally part of Erie Railroad which was merged into the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in 1960.
caption: The main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, a National Historic Landmark and New York City Landmark.
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