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.jpg) A New Haven Line train passes West Haven | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 20 Railroad Avenue West Haven, Connecticut | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°16′16″N 72°57′48″W / 41.271142°N 72.963199°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | ConnDOT New Haven Line (Northeast Corridor) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 660 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 18, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 1,117 daily boardings[1] (Metro-North) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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West Haven station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in West Haven, Connecticut. The station was built on Sawmill Road between Hood Terrace and Railroad Avenue, in the Elm Street-Wagner Place neighborhood. West Haven has 660 parking spaces in on-site lots (with the possibility of 300–400 more in a parking garage in a refurbished industrial building north of the station if warranted by future demand) as well as bicycle facilities. The station is accessible. West Haven has full service on the New Haven Line, as well as from the handful of Shore Line East trains which run past New Haven to Stamford.[2]
After a decade of studies, planning, and controversy over the station site, ground was broken for the station on November 10, 2010.[3] The $80 million project included the station, with two 12-car platforms, a glass station building, and an overhead pedestrian bridge, as well as the restoration of the formerly abandoned fourth mainline track through the station. It is only the second new station on the line in a century, after Fairfield Metro in 2011. The station opened to passengers on August 18, 2013.[4][5]
Shore Line East service at the station was suspended indefinitely on March 16, 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.[6][7]
- ^ Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
- ^ "Metro-North's New West Haven Station Opens On New Haven Line Sunday". Port Chester Daily Voice. August 13, 2013. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
- ^ Pinto, Amanda (November 10, 2010). "All Aboard: Ground broken on much anticipated West Haven rail station". New Haven Register. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
- ^ Bowen, Douglas John (July 15, 2013). "Metro-North West Haven Station to open Aug. 18". Railway Age. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
- ^ Walmsley, Ebony (August 19, 2013). "New West Haven train station open for business". New Haven Register on-line. Retrieved August 19, 2013.[permanent dead link]
- ^ @SLEalerts (March 13, 2020). "Effective 3/16/20, ALL weekday (Monday - Friday) CTrail Shore Line East trains will operate on an enhanced weekend schedule until further notice" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Shore Line East Service Information" (PDF). April 20, 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
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