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The Waterbury Branch is a branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, running north from a junction in the Devon section of Milford to Waterbury, Connecticut. Originally built as the Naugatuck Railroad , it once continued north to Winsted .
The Waterbury Branch, the only east-of-Hudson Metro-North service which has no direct service to Grand Central, is diesel only. Power is collected from the bottom of the third rail as opposed to the top, used by other third rail systems, including the Long Island Rail Road and New York City Subway.
On April 1, 1976, Penn Central's railroad operations were conveyed to Conrail. Freight traffic continued to decline through the 1970s as many of the factories along the line that shipped by rail closed and relocated out of the region. Starting in 1983, commuter service between Bridgeport and Waterbury was operated by Metro-North Railroad as the ...
Rebuilt by Metro-North Waterbury Waterbury Branch: Waterbury: New Haven, CT: New Haven ‡ Replaced former Waterbury Union Station: West Haven New Haven Line: West Haven: New Haven, CT: New Haven ‡ August 18, 2013 Westport New Haven Line: Westport: Fairfield, CT: New Haven ‡ White Plains Harlem Line: White Plains: Westchester, NY
It is served by the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line plus limited CT Rail Shore Line East service. The station has two high-level side platforms, each four cars long, serving the four tracks of the Northeast Corridor. [2]: 22 The station has 294 parking spaces, which are all owned by the state. [3]
Metro-North will add four trains to its schedule this weekend to ferry leaf peepers to and from the Hudson Valley. Two Hudson Line trains — one at 9:32 a.m., the other at 10:32 a.m. — depart ...
The old station is now the offices of the Republican-American, Waterbury's daily newspaper. The modern station has one high-level side platform to the east of the tracks long enough for one and a half train cars to receive and discharge passengers. The platform has a roof that covers it. A Metro-North siding is located just south of the station.
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