“These express trains provide the fastest trips in a decade between New Haven and Grand Central. “We are delivering on our promise of improving rail service in Connecticut,” Lamont said in a press release.
Ned Lamont said the increased service is part of the “Time for CT” initiative unveiled in 2019 to cut commuter-rail travel times. In a press conference today (Monday, July 11) in Bridgeport, Connecticut Gov. Three late-morning and midday roundtrips between New York and New Haven are also being restored to the schedule. evening trips will depart Grand Central at 4:16, 4:49, and 6:26 p.m. Morning departures from New Haven will be at 5:09, 5:41 and 7:52 a.m. In conjunction with the expansion of Waterbury service, a pilot program will feature three express trains in each direction between New Haven and New York, with stops in Bridgeport and Stamford, needing as little as 1 hour, 39 minutes to complete their trip. Metro-North completed the addition of Centralized Traffic Control on the Waterbury Branch in 2021, eliminating the last dark territory on its 217-mile system, while also adding new sidings to make possible the expanded service. The new branch schedule, and the rest of the updated New Haven Line schedule, is available here. The first southbound train now departs Waterbury at 4:47 a.m., 50 minutes earlier than in the past the first northbound departs Stamford at 6:15, with the first from New York at 6:55 a.m. The changes include an earlier start to service in both directions. Reflecting recent infrastructure upgrades, the number of weekday trains on the Waterbury Branch will go from 15 to 22, a 47% increase. A substantial increase in weekday service on Metro-North’s Waterbury Branch and new express trains between New Haven and New York’s Grand Central Terminal highlight new schedules that took effect Sunday, July 10.
The addition of CTC has made possible significant expansion of Waterbury Branch service as of today. 230 leads a test train past newly installed CTC interlocking signals at Beacon Falls, Conn., on Metro-North’s Waterbury Branch on Nov. Connecticut Department of Transportation P32AC-DM No.
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