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
General information
Location299 Rowayton Avenue at 1 Belmont Place
Norwalk, Connecticut
Coordinates41.07851°N 73.445535°W / 41.07851; -73.445535
Owned byConnDOT
Line(s)ConnDOT New Haven Line (Northeast Corridor)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
ConnectionsLocal Transit Norwalk Transit District: 12
Construction
Parking330 spaces
Other information
Fare zone16
Passengers
2018547 daily
Rank75 of 124[1]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station
Darien
toward Grand Central
 New Haven Line South Norwalk
toward New Haven State Street
Danbury Branch
peak 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

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. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. 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.

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