Branchville station

The Branchville station is a commuter rail stop on the Danbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in Branchville area of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The station is 54.0 miles (86.9 km) to Grand Central Terminal and the travel time from is about 1 hour, 38 minutes regardless of through trains or transfers.[4]

Branchville
Station house from the platform, April 19, 2012
Location787 Branchville Road, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Coordinates41.2667°N 73.4409°W / 41.2667; -73.4409
Owned byConnecticut Department of Transportation[1]
Operated byTown of Ridgefield[1]
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
ConnectionsNorwalk Transit District: Route 7 Link
Construction
Parking168 spaces[2]
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone42
Traffic
Passengers (2018)123
Rank106 of 124[3]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Following station
Cannondale
towards Grand Central
 Danbury Branch Redding
towards Danbury
Georgetown
Proposed
towards Grand Central

The station has 168 parking spaces,[2] is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT), and managed by the town, but Metro-North is responsible for trash removal.[1]

History

The station house was built in 1905. The building is now occupied by the Whistle Stop Bakery, which opened in the 1980s and was designed for commuters in a hurry needing coffee and snacks before boarding departing on the train to New York City.[5] The station is named for the surrounding Branchville neighborhood which in turn takes its name from a now defunct branch line off of the Norwalk to Danbury line that was built in the 1870s into the center of Ridgefield. The line was used for passenger service until 1925 and for freight service until 1964. It is now the Ridgefield Rail Trail and high voltage power line corridor.[4][6][7]

Station layout

This station has one three-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the track. The Danbury Branch has one through track at this location, but at the station house a switch leads to a 1,500-foot (460 m) passing loop that extends north well past the platform and station area before rejoining the line.[8]:27

Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 1 ←      Danbury Branch toward South Norwalk or Grand Central (Cannondale)
←      Danbury Branch toward Danbury (Redding) →

References
  1. Office of Rail, Bureau of Public Transportation (January 2007). "New Haven Line Train Station Visual Inspection, Summary Report" (PDF). Connecticut Department of Transportation.
  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
  3. METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
  4. "Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Branchville". I Ride The Harlem Line... July 19, 2011. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  5. "Woman bakes for crowds of commuters". Connecticut Post. January 5, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  6. "Branchville station: Bridging the past with the future". NewsTimes. February 14, 2012. 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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