New Canaan Branch
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| New Canaan Railroad | |
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| Locale | Stamford, CT to New Canaan, CT |
| Dates of operation | 1868 – |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge) |
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Metro North Railroad's New Canaan Branch is a short branch of their New Haven Line from a junction east of downtown Stamford, Connecticut north to New Canaan. It opened in 1868 as the New Canaan Railroad.
[edit] Station stops
- Continues southwest to Grand Central Terminal on the New Haven Line
- Stamford (also Amtrak Acela Express, Regional and Vermonter)
- splits from New Haven Line
- Stamford East Side (planned)
- Glenbrook
- Springdale
- Talmadge Hill
- New Canaan
[edit] History
The New Canaan Railroad was chartered May 1866 as a short branch of the New York and New Haven Railroad. It opened July 4, 1868. On January 1, 1879 the company went bankrupt, and it was reorganized in 1883 as the Stamford and New Canaan Railroad. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad leased the line on October 1, 1884, and on October 1, 1890 it was merged into the NYNH&H.
The NYNH&H was merged into Penn Central in 1969. On January 1, 1971, the State of Connecticut leased the New Canaan Branch from Penn Central. [1]
Like the New Haven mainline, the entire branch is electrified. All service is provided by MNRR's Cosmopolitan EMU cars, usually a single 2- or 3-car set. Most trains operate as a shuttle between Stamford and New Canaan; a few peak trains run through to Grand Central Terminal on weekday mornings and return in the evening.
| New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad subsidiaries |
| New York and New Haven / Hartford and New Haven / Shore Line (1872)
Harlem River (1873) - Air Line (1879) - Connecticut Valley (1882) - New Canaan (1884) - Naugatuck (1887) - New Haven and Northampton (1887) - New York, Providence and Boston (1892) - Housatonic (1892) - Providence and Worcester (1892) - Old Colony (1893) - New York and New England (1898) - Shepaug, Litchfield and Northern (1898) - Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River (1898) - Central New England (1904) - Newburg, Dutchess and Connecticut (1905) - Poughkeepsie and Eastern (1907) - New York Connecting (1917) - Union Freight |
| Metro-North Railroad lines |
| New Haven - Harlem - Putnam - Hudson - Pascack Valley - Port Jervis New Canaan - Danbury - Waterbury |
[edit] 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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