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Danbury and Norwalk Railroad

Overview
Locale	Norwalk, CT to Danbury, CT
Dates of operation	1852–

Metro-North Railroad's Danbury Branch is a branch of their New Haven Line from downtown Norwalk, Connecticut north to Danbury. It opened in 1852 as the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad, and was later connected to other lines at its north end.

Station stops

Continues southwest to Grand Central Terminal on the New Haven Line

• South Norwalk

splits from New Haven Line

• Merritt 7
• Wilton
• Cannondale
• Branchville
• Redding
• Bethel
• Danbury

History

The Danbury and Norwalk Railroad was chartered May 1849 as a branch of the just-completed New York and New Haven Railroad. The line opened in full, from Norwalk north to Danbury, on February 22, 1852. In July 1872 a branch from the main line at Bethel northeast to Hawleyville opened. At Hawleyville, the branch connected to the Housatonic Railroad, continuing north into Massachusetts. On May 1, 1874 that connection was supplemented by the New York, Housatonic and Northern Railroad, running from Danbury northeast to the Housatonic. In 1881 the New York and New England Railroad was completed, giving another connection at Danbury and Hawleyville.

A short branch from Branchville on the main line west to Ridgefield opened July 1, 1870. In July 1882 an extension was built in Norwalk to docks at Wilson Point. The Housatonic Railroad leased the D&N on July 21, 1887, and on July 1, 1892 the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad leased the Housatonic.

The NYNH&H merged into Penn Central in 1969. On January 1, 1971, the State of Connecticut leased the Danbury Branch from Penn Central.

References

• Railroad History Database
• Philip C. Blakeslee, A Brief History Lines West Of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. (1953)

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• Metro-North Railroad
• New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad