Rowayton station

The Rowayton station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in the Rowayton area of Norwalk, Connecticut.

Rowayton
Location299 Rowayton Avenue at 1 Belmont Place
Norwalk, Connecticut
Coordinates41.07851°N 73.445535°W / 41.07851; -73.445535
Owned byConnDOT
Line(s)Northeast Corridor
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Connections Norwalk Transit District: 12
Construction
Parking330 spaces
Other information
Fare zone16
Electrified12.5 kV AC overhead catenary
Traffic
Passengers (2018)547
Rank75 of 124[1]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Following station
Darien
towards Grand Central
 New Haven Line South Norwalk
towards New Haven or New Haven State Street
Former services
Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station
Darien
toward New York
 Main Line South Norwalk
toward New Haven

Nineteenth-century artist and humanitarian Vincent Colyer helped to get the station built.[2]

Parking

The station has 330 parking spaces, all owned by the state.[3]

In April 2007, the Sixth Taxing District commissioners, acting under a demand by the state Department of Transportation to change the system, decided to switch the parking permit-granting procedure so that 375[4] annual permit holders (expanded in April 2007 to 397) would be given preference for new permits. Under the new system, permit holders go to the Rowayton Community Center on the third Saturday in June and reapply.[5]

Under a system in place for the previous 30 years,[5] Rowayton commuters received parking permits on a first-come, first-served basis. Every June, commuters would camp out overnight to guarantee a place in line to get a permit. Those too far back in line would go on a waiting list.[4] As of April 2007, about 50 commuters were on the waiting list. In that month the commission expanded the annual permits from 375 to 397, removing 22 monthly permits the district had been selling on a monthly basis.[5]

On March 12, 2008, in a meeting of the Sixth Taxing District, an expansion of permit parking by 30 spaces to a total of 428 was approved by the taxing district commissioners. [6]

Station layout

This station has two slightly offset high-level side platforms, each six cars long. The northern platform, adjacent to Track 3, is generally used by westbound trains. The southern platform, adjacent to Track 4, is generally used by eastbound trains. The New Haven Line has four tracks at this location. The two inner tracks, not adjacent to either platform, are used only by express trains.[7]:20

P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 3 ←      New Haven Line toward Grand Central (Darien)
Track 1 ←      New Haven Line express service does not stop here
←      Amtrak services do not stop here
Track 2 ←      Amtrak services do not stop here →
←      New Haven Line express service does not stop here →
Track 4 ←      New Haven Line toward New Haven or New Haven State Street (South Norwalk) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
G Street level Exit/entrance and parking

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. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)"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
  4. Chamoff, Lisa, "Rowayton debates whether to defy DOT on parking", news article in The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut, Norwalk Edition, March 15, 2007, pp A9, A10
  5. Chamoff, Lisa, "No more lining up in Rowayton: Officials switch on station parking permit system", news article in The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut, Norwalk Edition, April 12, 2007, pp 1, A4
  6. Francis X., Fay Jr. (March 13, 2008). "The Hour". 6th District approves expanded parking at RR station. The Hour Publishing Company.
  7. "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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