| Westport | |||||||||||
| Style: | Metro-North Railroad | ||||||||||
| Style2: | New Haven Connecticut black | ||||||||||
| Address: | 1 Railroad Place | ||||||||||
| Borough: | Westport, Connecticut | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 41.12°N -73.3714°W | ||||||||||
| Owned: | ConnDOT | ||||||||||
| Line: | ConnDOT New Haven Line (Northeast Corridor) | ||||||||||
| Platform: | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks: | 4 | ||||||||||
| Other: | Norwalk Transit District: S1, S2, S3, S4, Imperial Avenue Shuttle, Nyla Farms Shuttle | ||||||||||
| Parking: | 1,454 spaces | ||||||||||
| Accessible: | yes | ||||||||||
| Zone: | 18 | ||||||||||
| Opened: | December 25, 1848[1] [2] | ||||||||||
| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||||
| Other Services Collapsible: | yes | ||||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||||
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Westport station (also known as Saugatuck station) is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in Westport, Connecticut. It is located in the center of the Saugatuck section of town, a few miles south of downtown Westport, and is one of two stations serving Westport. The station was named Westport & Saugatuck in timetables of the New Haven Railroad and the early years of its corporate successor, Penn Central.
The station has two high-level side platforms serving the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor. The northern (New York-bound) platform is nine cars long, while the southern platform is ten cars long.[3]
The station has 1,454 parking spaces, 1,126 of them owned by the state.[4] The ticket office at the station was closed on July 7, 2010; tickets must be purchased from vending machines adjacent to the platforms.[5]