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Cannondale
Station house and restaurant
General information
Owned by	ConnDOT
Line(s)	Danbury Branch
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Norwalk Transit District: Route 7 Link
Construction
Parking	140
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	41
Cannondale Railroad Station
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Location in ConnecticutShow map of ConnecticutCannondale station (the United States)Show map of the United States
Coordinates	41°13′0″N 73°25′36″W / 41.21667°N 73.42667°W / 41.21667; -73.42667
Built	1892
Part of	Cannondale Historic District (ID92001531)
Designated CP	November 12, 1992
Passengers
2018	167
Rank	102 of 124
Services
Preceding station [REDACTED] Metro-North Railroad Following station Wiltontoward South Norwalk, Stamford or Grand Central Danbury Branch Branchvilletoward Danbury GeorgetownProposedtoward Danbury

The Cannondale station is a commuter rail stop on the Danbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in the Cannondale area of Wilton and Weston, Connecticut.

The station is 50.2 miles to Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time from there is 1 hour, 24 minutes regardless of through trains or transfers at Stamford or South Norwalk.

The station has 140 parking spaces, all owned by the state.

Cannondale station provided the name and original logo for what is now the Cannondale Bicycle Corporation.

History

The Danbury and Norwalk Railroad opened the line in late February 1852, with the official opening on March 1. Charles Cannon of Cannondale was the subcontractor who built the route through Wilton. The train cost passengers 30 cents to go to South Norwalk and 50 cents to Danbury at a time when the day's wages of a laborer might not be a dollar. Two trains made the trip up and down the line each day. In the first few years, a freshet and a flood from the Norwalk River twice shut down the line for repairs. The station made travel suddenly much quicker than stagecoach transportation. After a few years, when speeds picked up a bit on the line, it took 28 minutes to reach South Norwalk.

In its early years, the railroad line had no more than 390 passengers a day using the service in its early years, and an average of 34 passengers per train, L. Peter Cornwall, a railroad historian, estimated that perhaps no more than a dozen people used the train from Cannondale in its early years. Although there may only have been a "flag stop" (in which passengers or railroad employees raised a flag if they needed the train to stop), by 1856 it was a regular stopping point for all trains, and the stop was originally called "Cannon's". In the early 1870s the station was no longer listed and was probably a flag stop. In the 1890s it was again listed as a station, now called "Cannon". Just before World War I, the station name was changed to "Cannondale". The station is currently a contributing property of the Cannondale Historic District, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992.

The Cafe au Lait coffee shop that used to operate out of the station house closed on March 31, 2010 and a search for a new building tenant has been ongoing since that time.

Station responsibility

Station layout

This station has one two-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the track. The Danbury Branch has one track at this location.

Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 1	←      Danbury Branch toward South Norwalk or Grand Central (Wilton) ←      Danbury Branch toward Danbury (Branchville) →

See also

• Connecticut Rail Commuter Council is the official state advocate for commuters and brings station problems to the attention of officials.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.
3. "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 Archived July 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ Cornwall, L. Peter, "The Danbury & Norwalk Railroad and its impact on Cannondale", pp 105–132, published in Cannondale: A Connecticut Neighborhood (no overall editor named), published by the Wilton Historical Society, 1987
5. Tuohy, Laurel (May 24, 2010). "Cannondale To Get New Coffeeshop by July?". Wilton Patch. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
6. "NEW HAVEN LINE TRAIN STATION VISUAL INSPECTION" (PDF). ct.gov.
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.

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Cannondale (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons
• Metro-North station page for Cannondale
• Fix My Station Photo Campaign - Cannondale
• Photographic tour of Cannondale station
• Connecticut Department of Transportation, "Condition Inspection Cannondale Station" report, August 2002

• Stations along New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad lines
• Metro-North Railroad stations in Connecticut
• Buildings and structures in Wilton, Connecticut
• Railroad stations in Fairfield County, Connecticut
• Historic district contributing properties in Connecticut
• National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut
• Railway stations opened in 1892
• 1892 establishments in Connecticut