Cos Cob station
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Parameter validation".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "check for deprecated parameters".
Cos Cob station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in the Cos Cob district of Greenwich, Connecticut.
History
On December 25, 1848, the last section of track on the railroad from New Haven to New York was completed over the Cos Cob Bridge. The first trial run was made on that day.[1]
The New York and New Haven Railroad was merged into the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1872, and the station became part of that railroad. Beginning in 1907, the NYNH&H built the Cos Cob power plant as part of an effort to electrify the main line. As with all New Haven Line stations along the Northeast Corridor, the station became a Penn Central station upon acquisition by Penn Central Railroad in 1969, and eventually became part of the MTA's Metro-North Railroad in 1983. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Station layout
The station has two high-level side platforms, each six cars long, serving the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor.[2]Template:Rp The station has 567 parking spaces, of which 361 are owned by the state.[3]
Built in about 1894, the station house is a modest wood-frame structure measuring about Script error: No such module "convert".. It has a clapboarded exterior, and an asymmetrical gabled roof with a short face toward the track, caused by the loss of the original platform shelter. The interior retains most of its original finishes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as Cos Cob Railroad Station.[4] The nearby Mianus River Railroad Bridge is also listed on the National Register. The Cos Cob Power Station, a former New Haven Railroad electrical substation on the western edge of that bridge, is also NRHP-registered despite being demolished during the turn of the millennium.
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". and Template:NRHP url
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Condition Inspection for the Cos Cob Station; Connecticut Department of Transportation report, November 2002
- Fairfield County Listings on the National Register of Historic Places
- http://www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents/dpt/1_Station_Inspection_Summary_Report.pdf
Template:MNRR stations navbox Template:Greenwich, Connecticut Template:National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
- Pages with script errors
- Articles using Infobox station with markup inside name
- Articles using Infobox station with links or images inside name
- Pages with broken file links
- Metro-North Railroad stations in Connecticut
- Stations on the Northeast Corridor
- Former New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad stations
- Railroad stations in Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Buildings and structures in Greenwich, Connecticut
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
- National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1848