Old Greenwich station

Old Greenwich station is a commuter rail station served by the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in the Old Greenwich neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. The station has two side platforms, each ten cars long, which serve the outer tracks of the four-track Northeast Corridor.^[2]

Old Greenwich
Old Greenwich station building in September 2007
General information
Location	160 Sound Beach Avenue Greenwich, Connecticut
Owned by	ConnDOT
Line(s)	ConnDOT New Haven Line (Northeast Corridor)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	Connecticut Transit Stamford: 11, 24
Construction
Parking	578 spaces
Other information
Fare zone	15
History
Opened	1892
Previous names	Sound Beach (1872–1931)
Passengers
2018	1,107 daily boardings[1]
Services
Preceding station Metro-North Railroad Following station Riverside toward Grand Central New Haven Line Stamford Terminus
Former services Preceding station New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Following station Riverside toward New York Main Line Stamford toward New Haven
Sound Beach Railroad Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates	41°02′00″N 73°34′04″W
Architectural style	Stick/Eastlake
NRHP reference No.	89000929
Added to NRHP	1989
Location

History

Platform construction in July 2019

The station was built in 1872 as Sound Beach, named after nearby Greenwich Point Beach. It was renamed Old Greenwich in 1931. The current station building, built about 1894, is a well-preserved example of the New Haven Railroad's period stations, with a utilitarian interior and exterior nods to period Victorian architectural styles. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as Sound Beach Railroad Station.^[3] The station formerly had six-car-length high-level platforms, which could not serve all cars on some trains.^[2]

In 2009, Metro-North began planning a project to replace structurally deficient railroad bridges over South Beach Avenue and Tomac Avenue.^[4] The scope of the project was later expanded to include platform extensions to 10-car length, as well as an expansion of the south parking lot.^[5][4] Notice to proceed on the $14.9 million project was given in August 2014, and construction began the next May.^[5] After several delays, the project was completed in late 2019.^[6] A retaining wall built for the parking lot expansion attracted criticism for its stark design, with comparisons to the Berlin Wall and The Wall from Game of Thrones.^[4]