The next railroad to serve Kingston was the broad-gauge (6 ft)
Wallkill Valley Railroad, an affiliate of the
Erie system. Following soon afterward was the
West Shore Railroad, which quickly bought up the Wallkill Valley. In 1883, at the junction of the West Shore Railroad, Wallkill Valley Railroad and U&D, Kingston Station, also known as "Union Station", was built by the
West Shore Railroad. Operating costs were shared by New York Central and the U&D, which then discontinued use of the Fair Street Station. Passenger service on the Wallkill Valley RR ended in 1937. There was also a nearby station for the Colonial City trolley line under the West Shore Railroad tracks. Kingston Station, MP 2.8, became one of the busiest stations serving the U&D. The U&D went along the north side of the station while the Wallkill and West Shore ran in front (east) of it. In 1885, the West Shore became a part of the NYC. On February 1, 1932, the U&D ceased to exist and became the Catskill Mountain Branch of the NYC; Kingston Station became a NYC station. In its latter years (the early 1950s), one morning train a day (except Sundays) ran on the route from Kingston to
Oneonta and one afternoon train in the east-bound direction ran back to Kingston. Passenger service on the old U&D route ended on March 31, 1954. NYC West Shore line service in the latter 1950s dwindled to one Kingston–Weehawken trip a day in each direction and one full-length Albany–Kingston–Weehawken trip a day in each direction; this last passenger service to Kingston ended in 1958. The station was then abandoned. It had deteriorated so badly that it was torn down in the 1960s, although some local groups tried to save it. ==Fair Street station==