Middletown Road (6,<6>) - The SubwayNut

Middletown Road is a 6 train Westchester elevated station that was closed for renovations from October 5, 2013 to May 4, 2014. The station received the typical renovations of this era with green- and cream-colored windscreens and a renovated station house. The station has two side platforms for the three-track line, with the middle track not used in regular passenger service. Just south of the station (and visible for photographs via a zoom lens) is a large flyover junction with the Westchester Yard. There are fully grade-separated track connections into the yard from all 3 tracks. The Manhattan-bound track and middle express track rise-up over the yard lead tracks. Yard leads connect to the through tracks from both directions forming a wye.

Pre-renovations, the station had corrugated windscreens and a wooden canopy covering about three quarters of the platform length, with the exposed portions of the platform having just low fencing painted white. The platforms are ever so slightly offset from each other (by about half a car length) with the Manhattan-bound platform starting slightly north of the Pelham-bound one. Along one end of one of the platforms was a single 1970s lamppost with a metal, vertical Middletown sign on it.

To exit the station, two staircases lead down from about the third car from the back of a Pelham-bound train to a small station mezzanine. Inside are the turnstiles facing a token booth. These lead to two steetstairs down, one to each side of White Plains Road at a complex intersection just east of the Hutchinson River Parkway. One streetstair is to the SE corner of Westchester Avenue and Middletown Road, the other is across right near the triangle formed by the northbound service road of the Hutchinson River Parkway and a slip lane onto this service road. When the station was first built, before the building of the Hutchinson River Parkway, there were regular city streets at a complex intersection in this area named Appleton Avenue and Lang Avenue.
Photos 1-12: December 28, 2006; 13-27: June 10, 2011;

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Looking down the platform at Middletown Road as a R142A 6 train makes it's quick station stop

A sign on the low-fence beyond the section of platform that is windscreened at Middletown Road.

R142A #7551 at the back of a Pelham Bay Park-bound 6 train leaving Middletown Road.

R142A #7551 continues to leave Middletown Road.

Zooming into the distance from Middletown Road two R142A 6 trains are off in the distance

R142A #7235 leads a downtown 6 Express train into Middletown Road.

A sign along the platform fence at Middletown Road.

R142A #7445 trails a downtown 6 Express train out of Middletown Road and onto the flyover track over the approaches to the Westchester Yard.

A downtown 6 train continues on the flyover track of the tracks into the Westchester Yard.

A downtown 6 train of R142A goes off into the distance over its flyover track of leads into the Westchester Yard.

Looking down the platform at Middletown Road, the platforms have canopies and windscreens for most of their lengths.

A Pelham-Bay Park R142A enters Middletown Road.

Stepping off a train at Middletown Road on a small portion of the platform where it was last extended (the fence looks different) to a unique lamppost

A Middletown vertical sign on a lamppost

The Middletown Rd sign on the short platform extension

In the middle of the platform by the exit staircases

A Middle-town Road column sign

A staircase to leave the station

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