Westport station (Metro-North)

Last updated

Westport
WestportCTTrainStation09302007.jpg
Westport station in 2007
General information
Location1 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)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
ConnectionsAiga bus trans.svg Norwalk Transit District: S1, S2, S3, S4, Imperial Avenue Shuttle, Nyla Farms Shuttle
Construction
Parking1,454 spaces
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone18
History
OpenedDecember 25, 1848 [1] [2]
Passengers
20182,625 daily boardings [3]
Services
Preceding station MTA NYC logo.svg 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 (Metro-North)

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.

Contents

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. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  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.

Commons-logo.svg Media related to Westport station (Metro-North) at Wikimedia Commons

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.