The Williams Bridge Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the Williamsbridge and Norwood sections of The Bronx via the Harlem Line. It is 10.5mi from Grand Central Terminal and is located at the intersection of Gun Hill Road and Webster Avenue. Service at Williams Bridge is hourly. Due to its short platform length, only the doors of four cars open for passengers.This station is located in the Zone 2 Metro-North fare zone.HistoryRail service in Williams Bridge can be traced as far back as 1842 with the establishment of the New York and Harlem Railroad, which became part of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864 and eventually taken over by the New York Central Railroad. Williams Bridge Station itself, which was originally built sometime in the 19th Century, originally had a station house on the southeast corner of the Gun Hill Road bridge and even had a turntable. From 1920 through the 1970s, it was in close proximity to the 210th Street – Williamsbridge elevated station of the IRT Third Avenue Line. In fact, the line itself used to curve from Webster Avenue over Gun Hill Road before terminating at Gun Hill Road station on the IRT White Plains Road Line to the east. Because of this, the Gun Hill Road bridge over the Harlem Line was a two-level bridge until the Third Avenue Line was abandoned in 1973.
