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The West Hurley Station, MP 9.8, later MP 10.2, was a railroad station on the Ulster and Delaware Railroad that was made in the late nineteenth century and rebuilt during the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir. The original station was made of wood, and later torn down and temporarily replaced with a board-and-batten shed close to Woodstock, and created much local indignation. A new brick station was constructed to replace it which was located at the West Hurley Dike of the Ashokan Reservoir. The depot is no longer there, as it was torn down in 1967.
Water service was available for steam engines at this station. A water tower was located north west of the station serving water plugs located between the tracks.
Present Condition
Currently, the West Hurley station area still retains a single, 750-foot-long (230 m) siding that was used by the railroad to store the first half of a train when it was necessary to break a train while coming up the 2% grade from Kingston.
The Catskill Mountain Railroad plans to use the siding as a storage track for four passenger cars, a ballast hopper and a gondola, which will be brought up from Kingston in 2007.
The foundations of the depot are still easily seen, and the CMRR plans to clear out further the area around the station and the siding in 2007.
The station area may eventually be used as a loading area for pulpwood to be shipped by rail.