Castle Hill Avenue is a 6 train Westchester elevated station that was closed for renovations from October 5, 2013 through May 4, 2014 and received the typical renovations with green and cream colored windscreens and a renovated station house. When I last visited the station in 2011 the platform walls were a wreck of white peeling paint, with peeling paint all over the platform and on the corrugated-style windscreens. The columns holding up the platform canopies were painted red then.
The station has two side platforms for the three-track line with the middle track unused in passenger service, except for GO diversions that require trains to bypass the station. The middle track is used also for yard moves between the Westchester Yard and Parkchester. These platforms are canopied for the southern two thirds of their length, with the northern thirds of the platforms exposed to the elements. The exposed portions of the platform still have their original 1920 platform railings.
The station’s only exit is about three-quarters of the way from the southern end of the platform. Two staircases lead down from each platform to a station house beneath the tracks. This station house contains a small fare control area and streetstairs lead down to the SE and NW corners of Westchester Avenue and Castle Hill Avenue.
Photos 1-7: October 5, 2005; 8-29: June 10, 2011; 30-44: September 10, 2013
R142A #7395 leaves Castle Hill Avenue at the back of a <6> Express train (which become local north of Parkchester where 6 locals terminate).
R142A #7395 curves through the Low-rise North Bronx north of Castle Hill Avenue
A R142A 6 train viewable between the buildings north of Castle Hill Avenue
Looking down the simple three track, two side platform Castle Hill Avenue Station
A boring station sign on a boring windscreen at Castle Hill Avenue
Looking down the platform at Castle Hill Avenue
Castle Hill Avenue, a simple elevated station
One of two platform exit staircases
Countdown clock for circle 6 and diamond 6 trains to Pelham Bay Park, this photo was taken at 12:18pm when the peak direction is shifting with 1 minute between the last local train and first express train of the afternoon
Sign for 6 To Pelham Bay Park, all times (no mention of diamond 6)
Approaching one of two exit staircases
Preparing to go down an exit staircase
A locked gate on the station house
The area of the station house within fare control
On one of the passageways to an exit staircase, the token booth faces the turnstiles
Walkway to one of the exits
Last Updated: November 28, 2023
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