Westport station (Metro-North)

Westport
Westport station in 2007
General information
Location	1 Railroad Place Westport, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°07′12″N73°22′17″W / 41.119986°N 73.37142°W / 41.119986; -73.37142
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
Construction
Parking	1,454 spaces
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	18
History
Opened	December 25, 1848 [1] [2]
Passengers
2018	2,625 daily boardings [3]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station East Norwalk toward Grand Central New Haven Line Green's Farms toward New Haven or New Haven State Street
Former services Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station East Norwalk toward New York Main Line Green's Farms toward New Haven
Location

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.

Station layout

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

1. "Special Express Notice". The Evening Post. New York, New York. February 12, 1849. p. 3. Retrieved December 9, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
2. 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.
3. Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
4. "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
5. "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
6. "mta.info - Metro-North Railroad: Selected Ticket Offices Close On July 7th". Metro-North Railroad . Retrieved July 10, 2010.

External links

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
• 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