Instead an additional station was built by New York Central and Hudson River Railroad within the vicinity of 172nd Street/Wendover Avenue as far back as the late-1860s.

[1] Originally named Central Morrisania station, it was built at surface level along with the rest of the tracks.

[5][6] A small freight yard also used to exist north of the station between the Claremont Parkway and 173rd Street bridges, the remnants of which can still be seen to this day.

Three blocks east, the Suburban Rapid Transit Company built the Third Avenue Elevated Line and installed a station along the same street in 1888.

Local politicians also demanded that New York Central take better care of the stations in the Bronx, which they weren't always able to do at the time.