Elmwood (CDOT station)
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 Elmwood station under construction in December 2014 | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°43′51″N 72°43′30″W / 41.7307°N 72.7249°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
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| Opened | March 28, 2015[1] | ||||||||||
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Elmwood is a bus rapid transit station on the CTfastrak line, located near the intersection of New Britain Avenue (CT-529) and New Park Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut. It opened with the line on March 28, 2015.[1] The station consists of two side platforms serving the busway, with two center passing lanes to allow express buses to pass buses stopped at the station.[2]
Railroad history
The New York and New England Railroad (and predecessor Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad) served a station approximately at the modern location.[3] It opened around 1850 as West Hartford and was renamed to Elmwood in 1874.[4] It may have been served until the end of passenger service between Hartford and New Britain in 1959.[3] Trains using the parallel Springfield Line, originally built by the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, did not stop at Elmwood.
References
- 1 2 "Despite Snow, Thousands of Riders, Many First-Timers, Experience CTfastrak on First Day of Service" (Press release). Connecticut Department of Transportation. 28 March 2015. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015.
- ↑ "Station Site Plans". Connecticut Department of Transportation. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- 1 2 Karr, Ronald Dale (1995). The Rail Lines of Southern New England. Branch Line Press. p. 83. ISBN 0942147022.
- ↑ "Track 12: CT Passenger Stations, E". Tyler City Station. Retrieved 17 January 2015.