Old Greenwich station facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Old Greenwich
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Old Greenwich station building in September 2007
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| Location | 1 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich, Connecticut |
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| Owned by | ConnDOT | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Northeast Corridor | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Connecticut Transit Stamford: 11, 24 |
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| Parking | 578 spaces | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 15 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1892 | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Sound Beach (1872–1931) | ||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2018) | 1,107 | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 56 of 124 | ||||||||||||
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Sound Beach Railroad Station
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| Architectural style | Stick/Eastlake | ||||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 89000929 | ||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | 1989 | ||||||||||||
Old Greenwich station is a commuter rail station served by the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in the Old Greenwich neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. The station has two side platforms, each ten cars long, which serve the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor.
History
The station was built in 1872 as Sound Beach, named after nearby Greenwich Point Beach. It was renamed Old Greenwich in 1931. The station building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as Sound Beach Railroad Station.
The station formerly had six-car-length high-level platforms, which could not serve all cars on some trains. In 2009, Metro-North began planning a project to replace structurally deficient railroad bridges over South Beach Avenue and Tomac Avenue. The scope of the project was later expanded to include platform extensions to 10-car length, as well as an expansion of the south parking lot. Notice to proceed on the $14.9 million project was given in August 2014, and construction began the next May. After several delays, the project was completed in late 2019. A retaining wall built for the parking lot expansion attracted criticism for its stark design, with comparisons to the Berlin Wall and The Wall from Game of Thrones.
- Metro-North station page for Old Greenwich
- List of upcoming Metro-North train departure times and track assignments from MTA
