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As with the rest of the New Haven Railroad, the station was acquired by Penn Central Railroad in 1969. The station's staffed ticket office closed on January 15, 1972. [ 3 ] Springdale station was reconstructed 1 ⁄ 10 mile (0.16 km) south of its previous location in 1972 in order to accommodate the new M2 Cosmopolitan railcars.
The improvement project is running behind schedule with the original completion date being December 2010, no new date has been announced. [ 9 ] A $8 million reconstruction of the station platforms began in March 2017, with completion then planned for late 2018.
The current Union Station is the third such station to exist in New Haven; the first station, designed by Henry Austin, was opened in 1848 by the New York and New Haven Railroad. [27] It was replaced by a new station in a different part of the city in 1879, under the auspices of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad .
New Haven Yard, also known as New Haven Rail Yard, is a rail yard located in New Haven, Connecticut. It serves Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak trains. [ 1 ] Situated on 1,600 acres of land near New Haven Union Station , it is a major facility for repair and maintenance for most Amtrak, Metro-North, and CT Rail operations in Connecticut.
The new East Concourse, designed by HNTB, opened in September 2002. [12] In December 2002 a new International Arrivals Building opened west of Terminal B, [12] housing the Federal Inspection Station with one jetway. [21] Two government agencies support the facility; U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
On weekends, one similarly scheduled New Haven-Greenfield round-trip is offered, in addition to a reverse round trip between Springfield and Greenfield. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Valley Flyer trains meet Acela Express and Northeast Regional services at New Haven Union Station where passengers can typically make a cross-platform transfer between trains.
West Haven has 660 parking spaces in on-site lots (with the possibility of 300–400 more in a parking garage in a refurbished industrial building north of the station if warranted by future demand) as well as bicycle facilities. The station is accessible. West Haven has full service on the New Haven Line. [2]
Rowayton station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in the Rowayton neighborhood of Norwalk, Connecticut. Nineteenth-century artist and humanitarian Vincent Colyer helped to get the original station built.