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Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Seymour Train Photos

In my endeavor to finish up the stations of the Waterbury Branch, today we find ourselves at the last remaining station: Seymour. Seymour is a little town located in the Naugatuck Valley, named for the 36th Governor of Connecticut, Thomas Henry Seymour. There isn’t much of a “downtown” Seymour, but the closest thing to it is a series of shops located on Main Street. Not far from those shops is Seymour’s Metro-North train station.

Located 75 miles from Grand Central, a trip from Seymour station to the city takes a bit over two hours. Because there is no direct service, a transfer is required at either Stamford or most commonly, Bridgeport. The station has all of the Waterbury Branch amenities we’ve come to love: a nice wooden box serving as a low-level platform, and a lack of ticket vending machines. But as a Waterbury Branch rider, there is no additional fee for purchasing your ticket on the train.

Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line:
Waterbury Branch:


Once upon a time (1910), trains to Seymour were this cool.

Other than the aforementioned details, Seymour is a relatively unremarkable station, and not extremely noteworthy for any reason – unless you count homeless people pushing shopping carts. But there is nobody that can tell the story better than Bobby in his post Life on the Waterbury Branch.

 
 
  
 
  
 
   
 

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4 Responses to “Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Seymour”

  1. Vee White Says:
    September 26th, 2011 at 6:10 am

    You have a lot of history on here and lots of beautiful photos.

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    Emily Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 4:08 pm

    Thank you!

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  2. Heather Cheney Says:
    January 2nd, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    Do you have any idea what that weird concrete slab thing across the tracks is? I came to Seymour to take some pictures/shoot some video a few weeks ago and spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out WTF it is/used to be.

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    Emily Reply:
    January 2nd, 2012 at 9:52 pm

    There was some sort of building there that got knocked down withing the past few years. I’m not sure what the building was or was used for. Check out this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonlewis/94338024/in/set-1606211

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