Rowayton station

Rowayton station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in the Rowayton neighborhood of Norwalk, Connecticut.

Rowayton
Rowayton station in 2007
General information
Location	299 Rowayton Avenue at 1 Belmont Place Norwalk, Connecticut
Coordinates	41.07851°N 73.445535°W / 41.07851; -73.445535
Owned by	ConnDOT
Line(s)	ConnDOT New Haven Line (Northeast Corridor)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	Norwalk Transit District: 12
Construction
Parking	330 spaces
Other information
Fare zone	16
Passengers
2018	547 daily boardings[1]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station Darien toward Grand Central New Haven Line South Norwalk toward New Haven or New Haven State Street Danbury Branch select weekday service South Norwalk toward Danbury
Former services Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station Darien toward New York Main Line Norwalk and South Norwalk toward New Haven
Location

Nineteenth-century artist and humanitarian Vincent Colyer helped to get the original station built.^[2]

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms, each six cars long, serving the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor.^[3]: 20

References

1. Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
2. Klein, Lauren, "Couple transforms old barn into new home", article in The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut, January 16, 2007 ("Colyer, a Darien resident, was a successful artist, a prominent figure in the Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant administrations and instrumental in bringing a railroad station to Rowayton."), accessed via NewsBank Web site, November 16, 2007
3. "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.

External links

Media related to Rowayton station at Wikimedia Commons

• Metro-North station page for Rowayton
• List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
• Bureau of Public Transportation of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, "Rowayton Train Station Visual Inspection Report" dated January 2007
• Rowayton Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• http://www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents/dpt/1_Station_Inspection_Summary_Report.pdf