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Signalization enabled multiple trains to safely operate on the branch at a time, while allowing for increased capacity and overall safer train operation. New passing sidings were constructed at Derby and Beacon Falls, while existing sidings at Devon and Waterbury were upgraded, allowing trains to pass each other in single-track territory and ...
The Naugatuck Railroad is a common carrier railroad owned by the Railroad Museum of New England and operated on tracks leased from the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The original Naugatuck Railroad was a railroad chartered to operate through south central Connecticut in 1845, with the first section opening for service in 1849.
Built by CDOT; Also serves CT Rail's Shore Line East and Hartford Line and Amtrak's Hartford Line, Northeast Regional, and Valley Flyer trains. Stratford New Haven Line Waterbury Branch: Stratford: Fairfield, CT: New Haven: Suffern Port Jervis Line: Suffern: Rockland, NY: Erie: 1941 NJT station used by Metro-North. Talmadge Hill
Both trains were empty at the time of the collision. [99] On May 17, 2013, at 6:01 PM EDT during the evening rush hour, two trains collided when an eastbound train derailed in Bridgeport, Connecticut just east of the Fairfield Metro station blocking the adjacent track just as a westbound train passed traveling in the opposite direction. At ...
The former station building in 2012. Rail service in Naugatuck dates back to the 1840s with the establishment of the Naugatuck Railroad.The Naugatuck was acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which built a new station house between 1908 and 1910, and opened it in 1911.
The Naugatuck Railroad opened from Milford north to Seymour in May 1849, with the extension to Waterbury opening the next month. [4] The original wooden station was replaced in 1898 by a buff brick station, now demolished. A small modern brick shelter was installed in the 1980s or 1990s. [5]
Waterbury station is a commuter rail stop on the Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located on Meadow Street in Waterbury, Connecticut.It is the northern terminus of the Waterbury Branch.
Watertown and Waterbury Railroad: NH: 1869 1893 Naugatuck Railroad: Chartered in 1869 to connect Watertown to the Naugatuck Railroad in Waterbury. Was leased by the Naugatuck Railroad upon opening in the fall of 1870, which absorbed it in 1893. [15] [16] Windsor Locks and Suffield Railroad: NH: 1868 1871 Hartford and New Haven Railroad