Beacon Falls (Metro-North station)

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address=1 Railroad Avenue & 99 Depot Street
Beacon Falls, CT, 06403-1023
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parking=28
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The Beacon Falls Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Beacon Falls, Connecticut via the Waterbury Branch of the New Haven Line. All service on the Waterbury Branch is shuttle service to Bridgeport running on very light frequencies (six trains daily weekdays, four weekends); travel time to Bridgeport is 37 minutes.

The station is 78.5 miles to Grand Central Terminal, with travel time there being an average two hours, nine minutes depending on transfer time at Bridgeport. Travel time to New Haven is an average of one hour, 17 minutes depending on transfer time.

The station has 28 parking spaces, all owned by the state. [ [http://www.ct.gov/dotinfo/lib/dotinfo/ctgov/FinalParkingReport.pdf "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] ]

See also

* Connecticut Rail Commuter Council is the official state advocate for commuters and brings station problems to the attention of officials.

Notes

External links

* [http://as0.mta.info/mnr/stations/station_detail.cfm?key=295 Metro-North Railroad - Beacon Falls]
* [http://www.ct.gov/dotinfo/lib/dotinfo/ctgov/Beacon.pdf Connecticut Department of Transportation "Condition Inspection for the Naugatuck Station" July 2002]

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