Danbury | |||||||||||||
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Location | 1 Patriot Drive Danbury, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°23′47″N73°26′57″W / 41.3963°N 73.4493°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | Connecticut Department of Transportation [1] | ||||||||||||
Operated by | City of Danbury [1] | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||
Connections | HARTransit: 2, 7 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 147 spaces | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 42 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | 1852 | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1996 | ||||||||||||
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2018 | 185 daily boardings [2] | ||||||||||||
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Danbury station is a commuter rail station on the Danbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in Danbury, Connecticut. The station is the northern terminus of Danbury Branch. The station is also a hub for Housatonic Area Regional Transit.
The original Danbury station opened in 1852 as the northern terminus of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad. Throughout the history of the Danbury station, the station has had many different depots. The first depot was opened in 1852 and served as the headquarters for the D&N. The Danbury station would have three different depots over the course of its history from 1852 to today. [3] The 1903-Built Union station, was an important part of Danbury's industrial expansion through the 1900s. However, By 1995, the Union station had fallen into complete disrepair, and was replaced by today's station in 1996. [4] The present passenger station was built in 1996 by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) and replaced the older New Haven Railroad station, which now houses the Danbury Railway Museum. [5]
The station has one three-car-long high-level island platform on the north side of the two-tracks line. A stub siding serves the north side of the platform. [6] : 28
The station has 147 parking spaces, all of which are owned by the state. [7]
The Danbury Railway Museum is a railway museum housed in the former Union Station on the east end of downtown Danbury, Connecticut, United States. It was established in the mid-1990s following the closure of the station by the Metro-North Railroad in favor of a new station nearby, and primarily focuses on the history of railroading in southern New England and neighboring New York. In addition to the former station building, the museum has a collection of heritage railcars in the neighboring rail yard it shares with Metro-North.
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