Branchville station is a commuter rail station on the Danbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in the Branchville neighborhood of Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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 Branchville station in November 2011 | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 787 Branchville Road Ridgefield, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°16′00″N 73°26′27″W / 41.2667°N 73.4409°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Connecticut Department of Transportation[1] | ||||||||||||
| Operated by | Town of Ridgefield[1] | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Norwalk Transit District: Route 7 Link | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | 168 spaces[2] | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 42 | ||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 123 daily boardings[3] | ||||||||||||
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History edit
Ridgefield opened in 1852 as an original station on the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad. The name was changed to Branchville upon the 1870 opening of the Ridgefield Branch. A new station building was built around 1887 and served until the current station house was built in 1905.[4] The building is currently occupied by the Whistle Stop Bakery, which opened in the 1980s.[5] The Ridgefield Branch was used for passenger service until 1925 and for freight service until 1964.[6][7]
Station layout edit
The station has one three-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the single track. A 1,500-foot (460 m) passing siding extends north from the station.[8]: 27
The station has 168 parking spaces,[2] is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT), and managed by the town. However, Metro-North is responsible for trash removal.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Office of Rail, Bureau of Public Transportation (January 2007). "New Haven Line Train Station Visual Inspection, Summary Report" (PDF). Connecticut Department of Transportation.
- ^ a b "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 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
- ^ Bell, Bob. "Stations:BR-BU". Tylercitystation.info. Tylercitystation. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
- ^ Miller, Robert (January 5, 2012). "Woman bakes for crowds of commuters". Connecticut Post. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
- ^ Perrefort, Dirk (February 14, 2012). "Branchville station: Bridging the past with the future". NewsTimes. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
- ^ "Branchville, Connecticut (CT) Page :: Mining, Railroad, Old Route 7 and More". historyofredding.net. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
- ^ "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
External links edit
Media related to Branchville station at Wikimedia Commons