Beacon Falls (Metro-North station)

Beacon Falls
Station statistics
Address 1 Railroad Avenue & 99 Depot Street
Beacon Falls, CT, 06403-1023
Lines
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Parking 28
Other information
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station
toward Bridgeport
Waterbury Branch
toward Waterbury

The Beacon Falls Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Beacon Falls, Connecticut via the Waterbury Branch of the New Haven Line. All service on the Waterbury Branch is shuttle service to Bridgeport running on very light frequencies (six trains daily weekdays, four weekends); travel time to Bridgeport is 37 minutes.

The station is 78.5 miles to Grand Central Terminal, with travel time there being an average two hours, nine minutes depending on transfer time at Bridgeport. Travel time to New Haven is an average of one hour, 17 minutes depending on transfer time.

The station has 28 parking spaces, all owned by the state.[1]

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Platform and track configuration

This station has one low-level side platform to the east of the track long enough for one door of one car to receive and discharge passengers. The Waterbury Branch has one track at this location.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "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

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