Cos Cob station

Cos Cob station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in the Cos Cob district of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Cos Cob
An eastbound train at Cos Cob station in July 2019
General information
Location	1 Station Drive Cos Cob, Greenwich, Connecticut
Coordinates	41.03123°N 73.598313°W / 41.03123; -73.598313
Owned by	ConnDOT
Line(s)	ConnDOT New Haven Line (Northeast Corridor)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Construction
Parking	567 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	15
History
Opened	December 25, 1848
Rebuilt	1890
Key dates
January 15, 1972	Station agent eliminated[1]
Passengers
2018	928 daily boardings[2]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station Greenwich toward Grand Central New Haven Line Riverside toward Stamford
Former services Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station Greenwich toward New York Main Line Riverside toward New Haven
Cos Cob Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Built	1894
Architectural style	Stick/Eastlake
NRHP reference No.	89000928
Added to NRHP	August 28, 1989
Location

History

An Amtrak train passing Cos Cob in 1975

On December 25, 1848, the last section of track on the railroad from New Haven to New York was completed over the Cos Cob Bridge. The first trial run was made on that day.^[3]

The New York and New Haven Railroad was merged into the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1872, and the station became part of that railroad. Beginning in 1907, the NYNH&H built the Cos Cob power plant as part of an effort to electrify the main line. As with all New Haven Line stations along the Northeast Corridor, the station became a Penn Central station upon acquisition by Penn Central Railroad in 1969, and eventually became part of the MTA's Metro-North Railroad in 1983. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms, each six cars long, serving the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor.^[4]: 19 The station has 567 parking spaces, of which 361 are owned by the state.^[5]

Built in about 1894, the station house is a modest wood-frame structure measuring about 50 by 20 feet (15.2 m × 6.1 m). It has a clapboarded exterior, and an asymmetrical gabled roof with a short face toward the track, caused by the loss of the original platform shelter. The interior retains most of its original finishes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as Cos Cob Railroad Station.^[6] The nearby Mianus River Railroad Bridge is also listed on the National Register. The Cos Cob Power Station, a former New Haven Railroad electrical substation on the western edge of that bridge, is also NRHP-registered despite being demolished during the turn of the millennium.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Greenwich, Connecticut

References

1. "7 County R.R. Stations to Quit Selling Tickets". The Bridgeport Post. January 6, 1972. pp. 1, 16. Retrieved March 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
3. "Murals: Scenes from Yesteryear". Stamford Historical Society. Retrieved August 25, 2006.
4. "Metro-North Railroad Track & Structures Department Track Charts Maintenance Program Interlocking Diagrams & Yard Diagrams 2015" (PDF). Metro-North Railroad. 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
5. Urbitran Associates Inc. (July 2003). "Table 1: New haven Line Parking Capacity and Utilization" (PDF). Task 2: Technical Memorandum parking Inventory and Utilization: Final Report. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2007.
6. Bruce Clouette (August 29, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cos Cob Railroad Station". National Park Service. and Accompanying six photos, exterior and interior, from 1988 (see photo captions page 9 of text document)

External links

• Media related to Cos Cob station at Wikimedia Commons
• Metro-North station page for Cos Cob
• List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
• Condition Inspection for the Cos Cob Station; Connecticut Department of Transportation report, November 2002
• Fairfield County Listings on the National Register of Historic Places
• http://www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents/dpt/1_Station_Inspection_Summary_Report.pdf