Beacon Falls station
The 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.
Beacon Falls | |||||||||||
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 Beacon Falls station in September 2018 | |||||||||||
| Location | 1 Railroad Avenue, Beacon Falls, Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41.4407°N 73.0631°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | ConnDOT[1] | ||||||||||
| Operated by | ConnDOT and Metro-North Railroad[1] | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 28 spaces[2] | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 51 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 14[3] | ||||||||||
| Rank | 120 of 124[3] | ||||||||||
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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]
References
- Office of Rail, Bureau of Public Transportation (January 2007). "New Haven Line Train Station Visual Inspection, Summary Report" (PDF). Connecticut Department of Transportation.
- "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
- Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group, Operations Planning and Analysis Department, Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
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