Rowayton station
Rowayton station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in the Rowayton neighborhood of Norwalk, Connecticut.
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| Location | 299 Rowayton Avenue at 1 Belmont Place Norwalk, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41.07851°N 73.445535°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | ConnDOT | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Northeast Corridor | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Norwalk Transit District: 12 | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | 330 spaces | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 16 | ||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 547 daily | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 75 of 124[1] | ||||||||||||
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Nineteenth-century artist and humanitarian Vincent Colyer helped to get the original station built.[2]
This station has two high-level side platforms, each six cars long, serving the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor.[3]:20
References
- METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
- Klein, Lauren, "Couple transforms old barn into new home", article in The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut, January 16, 2007 ("Colyer, a Darien resident, was a successful artist, a prominent figure in the Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant administrations and instrumental in bringing a railroad station to Rowayton."), accessed via NewsBank Web site, November 16, 2007
- "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
Media related to Rowayton station at Wikimedia Commons
- Metro-North station page for Rowayton
- List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
- Bureau of Public Transportation of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, "Rowayton Train Station Visual Inspection Report" dated January 2007
- Rowayton Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- http://www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents/dpt/1_Station_Inspection_Summary_Report.pdf
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