Branchville station

Branchville
Branchville
	Branchville station in November 2011
General information
Location	787 Branchville Road; Ridgefield, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°16′00″N73°26′27″W / 41.2667°N 73.4409°W
Owned by	Connecticut Department of Transportation
Operated by	Town of Ridgefield
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Norwalk Transit District: Route 7 Link
Construction
Parking	168 spaces
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	42
Passengers
2018	123 daily boardings
Services
Former services

Last updated January 30, 2024

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.

History

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

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]

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The Ridgefield Branch was a branch line of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad and later the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It ran for 4.0 miles (6.4 km) from Branchville to the center of Ridgefield, Connecticut. After a difficult and costly construction hindered by the topography of the Norwalk River valley, the branch opened in July 1870 after a year of construction. Throughout its existence, three stations existed on the line. In 1925, amid electrification of the neighboring Danbury Line, passenger service on the branch was terminated. Freight service continued to just the Ridgefield station until 1964, when the line was abandoned entirely.

References

1 2 3 Office of Rail, Bureau of Public Transportation (January 2007). "New Haven Line Train Station Visual Inspection, Summary Report" (PDF). Connecticut Department of Transportation.
1 2 "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.

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[owner-1] 1 2 3 Office of Rail, Bureau of Public Transportation (January 2007). "New Haven Line Train Station Visual Inspection, Summary Report" (PDF). Connecticut Department of Transportation.

[parking-2] 1 2 "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

[mta2018-3] Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.

[4] Bell, Bob. "Stations:BR-BU". Tylercitystation.info. Tylercitystation. Retrieved January 22, 2021.

[5] Miller, Robert (January 5, 2012). "Woman bakes for crowds of commuters". Connecticut Post. Retrieved August 8, 2018.

[6] Perrefort, Dirk (February 14, 2012). "Branchville station: Bridging the past with the future". NewsTimes. Retrieved August 8, 2018.

[7] "Branchville, Connecticut (CT) Page :: Mining, Railroad, Old Route 7 and More". historyofredding.net. Retrieved August 8, 2018.

[8] "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

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