Waterbury (Metro-North station)

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Waterbury

Metro North's Waterbury Station and its looming clock tower.

Station statistics

Address

333 Meadow Street
Waterbury, CT, 06702-1808

Lines

Metro-North:

New Haven Line

Connections

Connecticut Transit

Parking

156

Other information

Opened

1909

Accessible

Services

Preceding station		Metro-North Railroad		Following station
Naugatuck toward Bridgeport		Waterbury Branch		Terminus

The Waterbury Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Waterbury, Connecticut and surrounding areas at the north terminal of 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 51 minutes, New Haven an average of one hour, 30 minutes, and Grand Central an average of two hours, 13 minutes.

The station is 87.5 miles to Grand Central, the farthest such point in the Metro-North system from there by rail, though closer as the crow flies than Wassaic, the northern terminal on the Harlem Line.

As of 2003, the station had 156 parking spaces, all owned by the state.^[1]

Waterbury station was originally a Union Station built in 1909 for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company, and was modeled after the Torre del Mangia at the Palazzo Publico in Siena, Italy. The station was designed by McKim, Mead, and White. The 240-feet high clock tower was built by the Seth-Thomas Company, and added on July 12, 1909. Today, the station is the home of the Waterbury Republican-American newspaper, with the Metro-North platform located outside and to the south of the building.