| STATION | TOWN | RR | DATE | | | | | | | | | | | DANBURY1
| DANBURY | DN | 1852 |
|
| Courtesy of the Danbury Museum & Historical Society |
|
| Courtesy of the Danbury Museum & Historical Society |
DANBURY1
stood where the post office is today on Main St., with the rear end of the property reaching all the way to Ives St. The location
is shown on the 1856FC map. See T10.1.3-4 for more. The railroad commissioners reported in 1884 that the station had been remodeled and improved [CRC31.1884.14] and
it served until 1903 when DANBURY5 opened. DANBURY1 was razed in 1915: see T10.7.1
DANBURY2 is a bit of an enigma. No photos have been found. The snippet on
the left is from the 1883 bird's-eye map and the smaller structure in
front of DANBURY3 and DANBURY4 [locator nos. 22 and 23] may be the elusive station, though it appears larger than we thought.
The representation on the 1875 map at the right may be better and may show the NYH&N station at the red arrow. It would
be later moved to where the yellow arrow points.
DANBURY3 was among the stations designed and built for the NY&NE by Leman Oatman
of Hartford and completed by June of 1881 [HDC/06/21/1881/02]. It is atypical in every way when compared to both the
larger stations like SOUTHFORD and the smaller structures like MILL PLAIN. The wings, in particular, are unseen anywhere
else. Perhaps the narrowness of the parcel here argued for a more lateral, trackside structure. The only comparable station
might be the addition to the 1855 HP&F depot in the Brass City that created WATERBURY4. DANBURY3 would be moved to make
room for the 1907 double-tracking of the Maybrook line here and would later be sold to Leahy Fuel on whose property it still
stands today across from DANBURY5. [right add9/7]
DANBURY4 took the place of DANBURY2, the "old and inconvenient" [CRC30.1883.19] depot
inherited from the NYH&N at its White St. terminus. As seen here, it is BROOKFIELD JUNCTION2 after the HRR moved it there
in 1889. See B stations and T10.4.6 for more. No photos have been yet found of this
station in its original location, though one corner is seen in a shot of DANBURY3, which sat across the track from it.
| DANBURY5 | DANBURY | NYNHH | 1903 |
DANBURY5 was opened
on 7/13/1903 by the NYNH&H to bring all its passenger train operations into one location, thereby eliminating DANBURY1
and DANBURY3. After DANBURY5 closed and was taken out of railroad service, it reopened in 1995 as the Danbury Railway
Museum and is a popular railfan destination today in 2010. [REFS: CRC51.1903.19]
| DANIELSON1 [DANIELSONVILLE;
crc24,1877: fi winter 76; Norwich Aurora nzppr 03/10/1876/02: D1 burned on 3/8; ] | KILLINGLY | NW | 1840 |
DANIELSON1 was first called Danielsonville, as shown on the 1856WC map.
| DANIELSON2 [crc24,1877.26: NW rblding, NYNE no help] | KILLINGLY | NW | 1876 |
| DARIEN1 [r46] | DARIEN | NYNH | 1848 | | | | | | | DARIEN2 [WB side;
r46: saltbox, extant] | DARIEN | NYNH | 18700 |
DARIEN2
is seen on the right in the 1907 post card [add9/7]. The elaborate structure
on the eastbound side has caught our attention. Could this be some earlier DARIEN station we have not known about?
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
DARIEN3 on the eastbound
side was also a saltbox-style structure and somewhat larger than its counterpart [Roy, p46]. This may be DARIEN3,
which burned in April, 1885.
DARIEN4 on the eastbound side was built
in 1885 after DARIEN3 burned. This station was similar to others of the period in FAIRFIELD and MILFORD and cost $6,800. As
reported in the Stamford Advocate in a "Fifty Years Ago" item, this
station also burned in a 3/6/1935 fire that did $20,000 worth of damage and caused power to be shut down on the New York line. The station was torn down and replaced by a small brick building, seen in the next listing as DARIEN5. [REFS: NHER/06/03/1885/01;
NHAR14.1886.11; NL17.8.10 (12/1989); R46]
| DARIEN5 [EB side;
r46-brk, hip roof, raz 2002] | DARIEN | NYNHH | 19300 |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
| DAYVILLE [q530-l] | KILLINGLY | NW | 1840 |
DAYVILLE, also called Daysville,
as seen on the 1857WC map.
DEEP RIVER [HDC/08/25/1871/02
depot up for opening;
HC/08/17/1905/12: new depot planned] | DEEP RIVER | CV | 1871 |
| DERBY1 [>EAST
DERBY: HC/06/26/1896/11] | DERBY | N | 1849 |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
DERBY1. This 1849 NRR station was located east of Naugatuck River at the end of the causeway and bridge that
led to Birmingham, today's downtown Derby.
DERBY2 was originally called BIRMINGHAM as the NH&D stop when the road was built
into the Derby's downtown borough in 1871. By 1893, Derby had become a city and the borough was abolished. According to
the Courant [HC/06/26/1896/11],
the NYNH&H recognized this in 1896 by renaming this
station DERBY and the DERBY1 station on the east side of the Naugatuck River as EAST DERBY.
DERBY3 replaced DERBY2 in 1903.
| DERBY JUNCTION1 | DERBY | NHD | 1871 | | | | | | | DERBY JUNCTION2 | DERBY
| NHD | 1880 |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
DERBY JUNCTION2 was the second station built at the diamond where the NH&D
crossed the NRR on the eastern bank of the confluence of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers.
| DEVON [<NAUGATUCK JCT: see] | | | | | | | | | | DIVIDEND
[on 1907, 1911 tts; see also BELAMOSE] | ROCKY HILL | NYNHH | est19000 |
DIVIDEND. Station layout as seen on the 1915 valuation map.
| EAGLEVILLE1 [crc48.1900.27: being renovated (or new?)] | MANSFIELD | NLWP | 1849 |
| EAGLEVILLE2 [HC/02/08/1916/04 or new MANSFIELD?] | MANSFIELD | CVT | 1916 |
| EAST BERLIN
[r48] | BERLIN | M | 1850 |
| EAST BRIDGEPORT [rrc5:301 (3/2/68) 1800ft ea v draw] | BRIDGEPORT | NYNH | 1868 | | | | | | EAST CANAAN
[[HDC/12/21/1871/02: flg stp on opng]
d37; r49-cb sta mov we on 44, sz blt 1873] | NORTH CANAAN | CW | 187173 |
East
Canaan's Whiting Arches are seen below, under construction on the left and in a recent shot on the right.
EAST DANBURY [platform only]
| DANBURY | NYNHH | 19000 |
EAST DANBURY. There was only a platform here on Shelter Rock Rd. [add
9/7]
| EAST
DERBY [=DERBY1: see] |
|
|
| | | | | | | EAST FARMS | WATERBURY | MW | 1888 |
| EAST GRANBY [crc51.1903.22;
e253; d52] | EAST GRANBY | CNE | 1903 |
EAST GRANBY. Note the milepost for Agawam Jct. in the photo on the right.
| EAST HADDAM AND MOODUS [=GOODSPEEDS:
see] | | | | |
| EAST HAMPTON1 [CHATHAM;
HDC/07/15/1873/03] | EAST HAMPTON | NHMW | 1873 |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
EAST HAMPTON2
[r49: hip rf; HC/10/02/1909/15 new;
crc57.1909.45:
on no si v trk; nhar37.1908.8: in progress] | EAST HAMPTON | NYNHH | 1909 |
EAST HAMPTON2 is to the left
and EAST HAMPTON1, now being used as the freight depot, is on the right on the card that is postmarked December 5, 1916.
The view is reversed in the photo.
The Rapallo Viaduct
in East Hampton is about two miles east of the station. At 1,300 feet in length and 60 feet in height, it was not as
impressive as the Lyman Viaduct, at 1,100 feet long and 137 feet high, a mile farther on. It was another significant
engineering accomplishment, nonetheless, and made the Air Line even more celebrated for the twin viaducts. The structure was
named for Charles A. Rapallo, a NHM&W director.
| EAST HANOVER [=HANOVER: see] | MERIDEN | MW | 1888 | | | | | | | EAST HARTFORD1 [HDC/06/21/1881/02: nu dpo comg?] | EAST HARTFORD | HPF | 1849 |
EAST HARTFORD1, as seen on
the 1855HC map.
EAST HARTFORD2
| EAST HARTFORD | NYNE | 1888 |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
EAST HARTFORD2. The Courant describes the new HP&F stations
built in 1850 as "neat Gothic erections" so we doubt that this is the 1850 station [HDC/11/13/1849/02]. The
design of this East Hartford station is virtually identical to that of FORESTVILLE2, built in Forestville in 1881 [CRC29.1882.34]. In
spite of the fact that the newspaper said that the NY&NE had put money aside in 1881 for a new station here [HDC/06/21/1881/02],
the railroad commissioners did not report until 1888 that a new depot had been built [CRC36.1888.16]. This station stood
until at least 1929 [SL31.3.12].
| EAST HAVEN1 | EAST HAVEN | NHNL | 1852 | | | | | | | EAST HAVEN2 [crc21.1874.19] | EAST
HAVEN | NYNHH | 1874 |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
EAST HAVEN1,2. The tiny depot in front of the 'log cabin'
on the left is the 1852 East Haven station and the the larger one on the right is the 1874 station on the slightly relocated
line. A more significant relocation and double-tracking of the Shore Line division here would come in the early 1890s.
| EAST HAVEN3 [rr r.e.
recs: 1898, removed 11/1938] | EAST HAVEN | NYNHH | 1898 |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
| EAST LITCHFIELD1
[=LITCHFIELD1: see; d93] | LITCHFIELD | N | 1849 | | | | | | EAST LITCHFIELD2 [HC/03/25/1911/06: reloc trk,new sta]
| LITCHFIELD | NYNHH | 1911 |
| EAST
LYME | EAST
LYME | NHNL | 1852 | | | | | | | EAST LYME AND NIANTIC [prbb rplaces EL, N] | EAST LYME | NYNHH | 19000 | | | | | | EAST MERIDEN1 [Broad St]
| MERIDEN
| MWCR | 1888 | | | | | | EAST MERIDEN2 [Bee St; Conn. Co. elec svs only]
| MERIDEN | NYNHH | est
c1906 |
EAST MERIDEN JUNCTION
| MERIDEN
| MW
| lin 1888 |
EAST MERIDEN JUNCTION was created when the M&W opened to Waterbury in 1888. This was the point where it met the
M&C line to Cromwell. There was reportedly only a platform and no station structure here. By 1906 there was no longer
any service to Cromwell and two daily trains made the run instead from Middletown to Waterbury via Westfield.They used the
West Main St. station, MERIDEN7, which was 2.5 miles west of this point. By our 1907 timetable, service from Middletown was
operated by the Connecticut Co. on the NYNH&H right of way to EAST MERIDEN JCT where passengers transferred to steam trains
to continue the journey. As Snow [p29] says and, our 1911 timetable confirms, steam service was soon cut back on this end.
Trolleys
from Middletown then ran from here a short way down the old M&C and just beyond Broad St. used a connection to city streetcar
tracks to get downtown. Riders then changed trolleys to reach MERIDEN7 and continued the trip by train to Waterbury.
| EAST NEW LONDON | NEW LONDON | NLWP | 1849 | | | | | | | EAST NORWALK1 [WB side] | NORWALK | NYNHH | 1885 |
|
| Library of Congress |
EAST NORWALK1. The snip is from the Landis and Hughes 1899 aerial map of the Norwalks. Click here for the LOC panoramic map collection. EAST NORWALK1 was built in 1885, as reported by the railroad
commissioners [CRC33.1886.17] and also by the Register, which says that construction
was under way in June [NHER/06/03/1885/01. The railroad said that the station
here cost $4,000 and that this stop was established for the convenience of residents in the area east of the river that was
growing rapidly and expected to continue [NHAR14.1886.11]. The land that we know was acquired here in 1891 must
have been for EAST NORWALK2, the eastbound station that is seen south of the newly four-tracked mainline. The small square
EAST NORWALK1 on the westbound side was perhaps reconfigured at this time to take the shape shown by the bird's-eye artist,
though the long passenger canopies on each side of both stations do not seem jibe with the photographs we have.
| EAST NORWALK2 [EB side; rrc NYNH docs: land 11/2/91] | NORWALK | NYNHH | 1892 |
EAST NORWALK2. These structures both appear to be on the eastbound
side at this stop, with the bridge over East Ave. seen just ahead of the station in the shot on the left. We are
not sure if the canopy was just added over the building seen in that photo or whether the picture on the right is a later
structure.
| EAST NORWALK3 [WB
side; r50: 1980s; renv 5/24/2005] | NORWALK | MN | 19800 |
EAST NORWALK3
| EAST NORWALK4 [EB
side; r50: platform/enclosure] | NORWALK | MN | 19800 |
EAST NORWALK4 is the platform and enclosure
seen to the far left on the eastbound side.
| EAST RIVER | MADISON | NHNL | 1852 |
| EAST SUMMIT [SUMMIT
- PROSPECT] | PROSPECT | MW | 1888 |
| EAST THOMPSON | THOMPSON | BHE | 1863 |
EAST THOMPSON1. Depot location as seen on the 1856 WC map.
| EAST THOMPSON2 | THOMPSON | NYNHH | 19000 |
EAST THOMPSON2. If this is the second station here in the center, the smaller structure in the foreground may be the
first.
| EAST WALLINGFORD1 [burned?
r50 thinks this is EW2] | WALLINGFORD | NHMW | 1870 | | | | | | | EAST WALLINGFORD2 [r50: 2-st res
now on E. Cntr St] | WALLINGFORD | NYNHH | 1901 |
|
| Courtesy of The Williams Family |
|
| Leroy Roberts Collection |
EAST WALLINGFORD2 is still in business in the upper shots.
It is shown perched on a new first-story foundation as a private home on East Center St. in the 1958 photo on the
lower left. The lower right photo was taken on 8/2/2010, thanks to the hospitality of Warren Williams, who says there is one
daily P&W train each way, the morning run around 9:00am. We hope to get that shot in the near future!
| EAST WATERVILLE | WATERBURY | HPF | 1855 |
This station was originally WATERVILLE on the HP&F and later on the NY&NE and the name was changed
after the NYNH&H takeover, so as not to conflict with the station named WATERVILLE on the NRR a few blocks away.
See WATERVILLE [W stations] for maps. The differences between the buildings may indicate that one followed the other over
the years the station was in use. It is still on the val map in 1915.
| EAST WINDSOR1 [SCANTIC,
OSBORN] | EAST WINDSOR | CC | 1876 | | | | | | | EAST WINDSOR2 [crc45.1897.23:
nu sta aft old burned] | EAST WINDSOR | NE | 1897 |
| EAST WINDSOR HILL | SOUTH WINDSOR | CC | 1876 |
| EAST WINSTED1 [rrc20.398
9/12/05; crc54.1906.13] | WINCHESTER | N | 1849 | | | | | |
Though the larger tick marks are not always accurate indicators on the topographic maps, the two that we have circled
in red are likely the NRR station, our EAST WINSTED1, and the CW's own first depot that opened on
this side of town in 1879, our WINSTED4 [below: see]. This latter station is on the post-1879 and the 1892
map. EAST WINSTED1 is not on the earlier map, perhaps dating its debut to between those years. We have
not yet found it on NRR timetables and we have no photograph yet either but we have seen it on the a ca. 1902 Register and Manual map.
EAST WINSTED2 [d29; on opning?; HDC/03/05/1883/02
mentions it; rrc16.334 (8/30/05) 4 abd f Nsta] | WINCHESTER | CW | 187183 |
|
| Robert Lord Collection |
EAST WINSTED2. The station stands behind the wreck of the 128 and 183. This photo
appears on page 29 of Bob Lord's fine publication, Country Depots in the Connecticut Hills. The picture reportedly came
from the collection of Robert B. Adams, the noted rail publisher. The location
of this depot probably was Torringford Rd., approximately where the Rte. 8 expressway ends today. On the topographic
map above, this would be at the road where the large R is seen.
| EASTFORD [>SOUTHFORD,
>OXFORD] | SOUTHBURY | NYNE | 1881 |
EASTFORD was reportedly the name of the
first station for the town of Oxford, though it was just over the line in Southbury. The use of this home as a depot conflicts
with the information that all the stations on the NY&NE extension were built new in 1881 when the line was opened and
that SOUTHFORD [see S stations] was up and in service.
| ELLIOTTS1 | POMFRET | NYNE | 1877 |
| ELLIOTTS2 [crc25.1878.36] | POMFRET | NYNE | 19000 |
ELLIOTTS2 is seen above, and is on the left in the second photo with
ELLIOTTS1 on the right.
| ELLITHORPE | STAFFORD | NLWP | 1859 | | | | | | ELMWOOD [<HDC/05/07/1874/02;
renamed from WEST
HARTFORD as of 6/1/1874; earlier one than shown here?] | WEST
HARTFORD | HPF | 1850 |
| ENFIELD BRIDGE1 | ENFIELD | HNH | 1844 | | | | | | | ENFIELD BRIDGE2 [rrc42.1894.18] | ENFIELD | NYNHH | 1894 |
ENFIELD BRIDGE2 is seen in the photo to the right. In the photo showing the
two stations, ENFIELD1 may be the smaller station to the right of the tracks.
| ESSEX1 [r51; HDC/08/25/1871/02] | ESSEX | CV | 1871 |
ESSEX2. The former
freight depot, being used by the Valley RR as its current station, is seen in the background.
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