Beacon Falls station

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Beacon Falls
Beacon Falls station, September 2018.JPG
Beacon Falls station in September 2018
General information
Location1 Railroad Avenue
Beacon Falls, Connecticut
Coordinates 41°26′27″N73°03′47″W / 41.4407°N 73.0631°W / 41.4407; -73.0631
Owned by ConnDOT [1]
Operated byConnDOT and Metro-North Railroad [1]
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Construction
Parking28 spaces [2]
Other information
Fare zone51
Passengers
201814 daily boardings [3]
Services
Preceding station MTA NYC logo.svg Metro-North Railroad Following station
Seymour
toward Bridgeport or Stamford
Waterbury Branch Naugatuck
toward Waterbury

Beacon Falls station is a commuter rail stop on the Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in Beacon Falls, Connecticut. With just 14 daily passengers, the station is one of the least used stations in the entire Metro-North system.

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Station layout

The station has one low-level side platform to the east of the single track, long enough for one door of one car to receive and discharge passengers.

The station is owned and operated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, but Metro-North is responsible for maintaining platform lighting as well as trash and snow removal. [1] The station has 28 parking spaces operated by the town of Beacon Falls. [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Office of Rail, Bureau of Public Transportation (January 2007). "New Haven Line Train Station Visual Inspection, Summary Report" (PDF). Connecticut Department of Transportation.
  2. 1 2 "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 Archived July 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Metro-North Railroad Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group. April 2019. p. 6.
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