Branchville station
Branchville | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Station house from the platform, April 19, 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 47 US Hwy 7 & 787 Branchville Road Ridgefield, Connecticut7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°16′00″N 73°26′27″W / 41.2667°N 73.4409°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | ConnDOT | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Danbury Branch | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Norwalk Transit District: Route 7 Link | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 168 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Branchville station is a Metro-North Railroad station on the Danbury Branch of the New Haven Line, located in the Branchville area of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The station is 54.0 miles to Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time from there is 1 hour, 38 minutes regardless of through trains or transfers at Stamford or South Norwalk.[1] The station has 168 parking spaces, all owned by the state.[2] The station does not have a staffed ticket office and does not have ticket machines. Tickets may be purchased on board trains without a surcharge.[3]
History
The station house was built in the 1905 and is still in use today. The building is now occupied by the Whistle Stop Bakery, which opened in the 1980s. The bakery was made for commuters who hurry in for a cup of coffee and a snack before boarding the Metro-North train to New York City.[4] The station was named after a now defunct branch line that was built in the 1870s into the center of Ridgefield. The line was used for passenger service until 1925 and for freight service until 1964. The line is now a rail trail.[1][5][6]
Station responsibility
| Ownership[7] | Station
Manager |
Platform
Lights |
Trash | Platform
Snow |
Shelter
Glaze |
Platform
Canopy |
Platform
Structure |
Parking | Remarks |
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| ConnDOT | Town | MNR | MNR | Town | Town | Town | Town | Town | Town - parking & station building |
Platform and track configuration
| 1 | ■ Danbury Branch | for South Norwalk or Grand Central |
| ■ Danbury Branch | for Danbury |
This station has one three-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the track. The Danbury Branch has one through track at this location, but at the station house a switch leads to a 1,500-foot (460 m) passing loop that extends north well past the platform and station area before rejoining the line.
See also
- Connecticut Rail Commuter Council is the official state advocate for commuters and brings station problems to the attention of officials.
- Ridgefield Rail Trail
References
- ^ a b "Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Branchville". I Ride The Harlem Line... 19 July 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ "Task 2: Technical Memorandum parking Inventory and Utilization: Final Report" submitted by Urbitran Associates Inc. to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, "Table 1: New haven Line Parking Capacity and Utilization", page 6, July 2003 Archived July 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Metro North Stations". mta.info. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
- ^ "Woman bakes for crowds of commuters". Connecticut Post. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ "Branchville station: Bridging the past with the future". NewsTimes. 14 February 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ "Branchville, Connecticut (CT) Page :: Mining, Railroad, Old Route 7 and More". historyofredding.net. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ "NEW HAVEN LINE TRAIN STATION VISUAL INSPECTION" (PDF). ct.gov.
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External links
Media related to Branchville (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons