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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.
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
By then the line north of Waterbury was named the Torrington Secondary Track, and ended at Torrington. On January 1, 1971, the State of Connecticut and the MTA leased passenger and freight operations along the Waterbury Branch to Penn Central. [1] On April 1, 1976, Penn Central's railroad operations were conveyed to Conrail. Freight traffic ...
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Beacon Falls station is a commuter rail stop on the Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in Beacon Falls, Connecticut. With just 14 daily passengers as of 2018, the station is one of the least used stations in the entire Metro-North system. After closing in 1949, the station reopened on October 27, 1991.
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.