Old Greenwich | |||||||||||||
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 Old Greenwich station in 2025 | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | 160 Sound Beach Avenue Greenwich, Connecticut | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | ConnDOT | ||||||||||||
| Line | ConnDOTNew Haven Line (Northeast Corridor) | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Connecticut Transit Stamford: 11, 24 | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Parking | 578 spaces | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 15 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 1892 | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Sound Beach (1872–1931) | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | 1,107 daily boardings[1] | ||||||||||||
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Sound Beach Railroad Station | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°02′00″N73°34′04″W / 41.03333°N 73.56778°W /41.03333; -73.56778 | ||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Stick/Eastlake | ||||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 89000929 | ||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | 1989 | ||||||||||||
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Old Greenwich station is acommuter rail station served by theMetro-North RailroadNew Haven Line, located in theOld Greenwich neighborhood ofGreenwich, Connecticut. The station has twoside platforms, each ten cars long, which serve the outer tracks of the four-trackNortheast Corridor.[2]
The station was built in 1872 asSound Beach, named after nearby Greenwich Point Beach. It was renamed Old Greenwich in 1931. The current station building, built about 1894, is a well-preserved example of the New Haven Railroad's period stations, with a utilitarian interior and exterior nods to period Victorian architectural styles. It was added to theNational Register of Historic Places in 1989 asSound Beach Railroad Station.[3] The station formerly had six-car-length high-level platforms, which could not serve all cars on some trains.[2]
In 2009, Metro-North began planning a project to replace structurally deficient railroad bridges over South Beach Avenue and Tomac Avenue.[4] 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.[5][4] Notice to proceed on the $14.9 million project was given in August 2014, and construction began the next May.[5] After several delays, the project was completed in late 2019.[6] A retaining wall built for the parking lot expansion attracted criticism for its stark design, with comparisons to theBerlin Wall andThe Wall fromGame of Thrones.[4]
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