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The present building was constructed in 1910–1911, with a formal opening on April 4, 1911. The brick building measured 155 by 50 feet (47 by 15 m) and stood two stories tall. The space was sufficient to contain a waiting room, baggage room, a "women's retiring room", a smoking room, and a ticket
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office. The second floor was given over to company offices. It replaced the original station, which had served both freight and passengers. A new freight house was also built.
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The Lehigh Valley abandoned the branch north of Cortland in 1967. Most of the branch south of Cortland was out of service by the mid-1970s.
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The Ups & Downs of a Rural Line: Elmira, Cortland & Northern RR, 1867 to 1967 and on
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The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Nineteenth Century
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The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century
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The Gangly Country Cousin: the Lehigh Valley's Auburn Division
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Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980).
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Traffic declined on the Elmira and Cortland Branch after
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Railway stations in the United States closed in 1948
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Railway stations in the United States opened in 1911
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Cortlandt station
Courtland station

Cortland, New York
42°35′31″N 76°10′50″W / 42.592022°N 76.180599°W / 42.592022; -76.180599
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Gracie
Elmira
Elmira and Cortland Branch
Lorings
Camden
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Cortland, New York
Elmira and Cortland Branch
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Syracuse, New York
Binghamton, New York
New York and Oswego Midland Railroad
Norwich, New York
Freeville, New York
Elmira, Cortland and Northern Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad
World War I
DeRuyter, New York
mixed trains
Canastota, New York

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