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(Redirected from Rowayton (Metro-North station)) Metro-North Railroad station in Connecticut

Rowayton
Rowayton station in 2007
General information
Location299 Rowayton Avenue at 1 Belmont Place
Norwalk, Connecticut
Coordinates41°04′43″N 73°26′44″W / 41.07851°N 73.445535°W / 41.07851; -73.445535
Owned byConnDOT
Line(s)ConnDOT New Haven Line (Northeast Corridor)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
ConnectionsLocal Transit Norwalk Transit District: 12
Construction
Parking330 spaces
Other information
Fare zone16
Passengers
2018547 daily boardings
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Darientoward Grand Central New Haven Line South Norwalktoward New Haven or New Haven State Street
Danbury Branchweekday service South Norwalktoward Danbury
Former services
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
Darientoward New York Main Line Norwalk and South Norwalktoward New Haven
Location

Rowayton station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in the Rowayton neighborhood of Norwalk, Connecticut.

Nineteenth-century artist and humanitarian Vincent Colyer helped to get the original station built.

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms, each six cars long, serving the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor.

References

  1. Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
  2. 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
  3. "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 Railroad stations
Park Avenue main line
Harlem Line
Hudson Line
Penn Station service (planned)
New Haven Line
New Canaan Branch
Danbury Branch
Waterbury Branch
Penn Station service (planned)
Pascack Valley Line
Port Jervis Line
Former route
  • Italics denote closed/future stations and line segments. Asterisks indicate stations closed prior to the formation of Metro-North
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