Westport station (also known as Saugatuck station) is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in Westport, Connecticut. It is located in the center of the Saugatuck section of town, a few miles south of downtown Westport, and is one of two stations serving Westport. The station was named Westport & Saugatuck in timetables of the New Haven Railroad and the early years of its corporate successor, Penn Central.
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 Westport station in 2007 | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 1 Railroad Place Westport, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°07′12″N 73°22′17″W / 41.119986°N 73.37142°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | ConnDOT | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | ConnDOT New Haven Line (Northeast Corridor) | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Norwalk Transit District: S1, S2, S3, S4, Imperial Avenue Shuttle, Nyla Farms Shuttle | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | 1,454 spaces | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 18 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | December 25, 1848[1][2] | ||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 2,625 daily boardings[3] | ||||||||||||
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Station layout edit
The station has two high-level side platforms serving the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor. The northern (New York-bound) platform is nine cars long, while the southern platform is ten cars long.[4]: 21
The station has 1,454 parking spaces, 1,126 of them owned by the state.[5] The ticket office at the station was closed on July 7, 2010; tickets must be purchased from vending machines adjacent to the platforms.[6]
References edit
- ^ "Special Express Notice". The Evening Post. New York, New York. February 12, 1849. p. 3. Retrieved December 9, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Jenkins, Stephen (1912). The Story of the Bronx from the Purchase Made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day. New York, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 235.
- ^ Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
- ^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
- ^ [1]"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
- ^ "mta.info - Metro-North Railroad: Selected Ticket Offices Close On July 7th". Metro-North Railroad. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
External links edit
Media related to Westport station (Metro-North) at Wikimedia Commons
- Metro-North station page for Westport
- List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
- [2] Bureau of Public Transportation of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, "Condition Inspection for the Westport Station" report dated December 2006
- http://www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents/dpt/1_Station_Inspection_Summary_Report.pdf