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DANBURY1
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| Courtesy of the Danbury Museum & Historical Society |
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| Courtesy of the Danbury Museum & Historical Society |
DANBURY1 stood where the post office is today on Main St., with the
rear end of the property reaching all the way to Ives St. The location is shown on the 1856FC map. See Track 10, MP 10.1.3
for more. The railroad commissioners reported in 1884 that the station had been remodeled and improved and it served until
1903 when DANBURY5 opened. The floor plan at lower left [add12/5] shows what
the new arrangement was to look like with a new separate waiting room for ladies made possible by moving the Adams Express
office elsewhere on the station property. DANBURY1 was razed in 1915: see Track 10, MP 10.7.1. [REFS: DN/03/28/1883/??; CRC31.1884.14]
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DANBURY2
DANBURY2 is a bit of an enigma. No photos have been found. The snippet on the left is from the 1883 bird's-eye map and the smaller structure in front of DANBURY3
and DANBURY4 [locator nos. 22 and 23] may be the elusive station, though it appears larger than we thought. The representation
on the 1875 map at the right may be better and may show the NYH&N station at the red arrow. It would be later moved to
where the yellow arrow points.
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DANBURY3
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| Dave Peters Collection |
DANBURY3 was among the stations designed and built for the NY&NE
by Leman Oatman of Hartford and completed by June of 1881 [HDC/06/21/1881/02]. It is atypical in every way when
compared to both the larger stations like SOUTHFORD and the smaller structures like MILL PLAIN. The wings, in particular,
are unseen anywhere else. Perhaps the narrowness of the parcel here argued for a more lateral, trackside structure. The only
comparable station might be the addition to the 1855 HP&F depot in the Brass City that created WATERBURY4. DANBURY3 would
be moved to make room for the 1907 double-tracking of the Maybrook line here and would later be sold to Leahy Fuel on whose
property it still stands today across from DANBURY5. [REFS: NL23.1.7; NL23.2.10]
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DANBURY4
DANBURY4. This HRR station
took the place of DANBURY2, the "old and inconvenient" [CRC30.1883.19] depot inherited from the NYH&N at its
White St. terminus. As seen here, it is BROOKFIELD JUNCTION2 after the HRR moved it there in 1889. See B stations and Track 10, MP 10.4.6 for more. No photos have been yet found of this station in its original location,
though the shot on the right of DANBURY3, which sat across the track, shows
the corner of the DANBURY4 in the extreme left.
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DANBURY5
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| Dave Peters Collection |
DANBURY5 was opened on 7/13/1903 by the NYNH&H to bring all its passenger train operations into one location, thereby
eliminating DANBURY1 and DANBURY3. After DANBURY5 closed and was taken out of railroad service, it reopened in 1995
as the Danbury Railway Museum and is a popular railfan destination today in 2010. [REFS: CRC51.1903.19]
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DANBURY6
DANBURY6. Built by Metro-North in 1996.
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DANIELSON1
DANIELSON1. This station was first called DANIELSONVILLE,
and located as shown on the 1856WC map. The stop was established by the N&W in 1840. This station burned on 3/8/1876,
according to the Norwich Aurora. [REFS: NA/03/10/1876/02; Q145]
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DANIELSON2
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| Dave Peters Collection |
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| Edward J. Ozog Collection |
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| Robert Lingane Collection |
DANIELSON2. After the fire that took the first station, the railroad
commissioners reported that the N&W was rebuilding here and that the NY&NE lessee was providing no assistance. [REFS:
CRC24.1877.26]
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DARIEN1
DARIEN1. The stop was established in 1848 by the NY&NH. The location
is seen on 1874 map.
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DARIEN2
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| C. Dunn Collection |
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| Dave Peters Collection |
DARIEN2 is seen on the upper left in the 1907 post card. We had remarked previously about the elaborate structure on the eastbound side and, to our delight, the
val photo [lower left] has justified our suspicions that this was DARIEN2. DARIEN1 burned in April, 1885 and
the
Register reported in June that a replacement depot was being built.
With the exception of the dormers added here, the new brick station was similar to others of the period [see F, M stations
for FAIRFIELD2 and MILFORD2] and cost $6,800. As reported in the Stamford Advocate in a "Fifty
Years Ago" item, DARIEN2 also burned in a 3/6/1935 fire that did $20,000 worth of damage and caused power to be shut down
on the New York line. The station was torn down and replaced by a small brick building
that is seen below as DARIEN4. [REFS: NHER/06/03/1885/01; NHAR14.1886.11; NL17.8.10; R46]
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DARIEN3
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| Leroy Roberts Collection |
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| Dave Peters Collection |
DARIEN3 is
the saltbox-style structure, refurbished in 2002, that is still standing on the westbound side of the tracks. John Roy says that this station was built sometime between 1870 and 1885, even while there was a somewhat larger twin
saltbox on the eastbound side. We are unaware of any other locations on the New York line that had depots on both sides of the tracks before the
four-tracking of the 1890s. Even
then, we doubt that DARIEN1 was a saltbox, so that would mean an intervening depot that stood on the eastbound side for about
the same period from 1870 until our DARIEN2 was built in 1885. We are inclined to think that DARIEN3 was built ca. 1896 with
the four-tracking of the New York line.
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DARIEN4
DARIEN4. This small brick station replaced DARIEN2 on the eastbound side in the 1930s
and was razed in 2002 with the station renovation project here. [REFS: R46]
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DARIEN5
DARIEN5. Built by Metro-North in 2002.
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DAYVILLE
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| Dave Peters Collection |
DAYVILLE, also
called DAYSVILLE, as seen on the 1857WC map and in several photos. The stop was established in the town
of Killingly by the N&W in 1840. This is the only station we have found pictured at this location, though it is possible
that there was an earlier one here. [REFS: Q530-l]
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DEEP RIVER
DEEP RIVER. The map is from the 1874 Middlesex County atlas, when this
village was within the township of Saybrook, not to be confused with Old Saybrook to the south. Deep River was created in
1947 as an independent town. This classic CV passenger station is gone but the
freight house here still stands. [REFS: R47; HDC/08/25/1871/02 depot up for opening; HC/08/17/1905/12: new
depot planned; MM: gone ca. 1937]
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DERBY1
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| Leroy Roberts Collection |
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| C. Dunn Collection |
DERBY1. This 1849 NRR station was located east of Naugatuck River at the
end of the causeway and bridge that led to Birmingham, today's downtown Derby. Renamed EAST DERBY by the NYNH&H in
1896, this depot was abandoned in 1904 shortly after DERBY3 opened late in 1903. [REFS: HC/06/26/1896/11; RRC20.311 (8/12/1904)]
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DERBY2 [> BIRMINGHAM1]
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DERBY3 [> BIRMINGHAM2]
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DERBY4
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| Dave Peters Collection |
DERBY4 replaced DERBY3 in 1903> [REFS: CRC51.1903.20]
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DERBY JUNCTION1
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DERBY JUNCTION2
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| Leroy Roberts Collection |
DERBY JUNCTION2 was built in 1880 to replace the small structure that had
served as DERBY JUNCTION1 from 1871 when the NH&D opened. This location was at the diamond where
the NH&D crossed the NRR on the east bank of the Housatonic River just below its confluence with
the Naugatuck River.
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DEVON [> NAUGATUCK JUNCTION]
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DIVIDEND
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| Max Miller photo |
DIVIDEND. This station
was not established until ca. 1900 and is found on the 1907 and 1911TTs. This is the
layout as seen on the 1915 valuation map [upper left] where a small station structure can be seen. We have no photo yet
of whatever stood here. The stop was renamed BELAMOSE in the 1920s. It is listed in a NYNH&H station
index of 8/1/1925 and is seen on the 1930RAM map at upper right.
The stop was renamed, according to the Hartford Times, for the company that built extensive factory facilities in Rocky Hill in 1924 for the production of artificial
silk. The new station is seen in the photo
that looks south from Old Forge Rd./Dividend La. in Rocky Hill, seen at the yellow mark on the today map at lower left. The
old wooden combine passenger coach doing the honors was built in 1892 by the Wason Car Co. Having served as NYNH&H #1725 and then as #2501, it was condemned on 2/16/1925 and moved here to serve
the Belamose employees. The PUC photographer took the shot on 10/22/1925 when
the commissioners were examining the Valley branch grade crossings, this one 36.58 miles from Fenwick. The coach was retired
under Authorization For Expenditure (AFE) #24595 on 3/25/1929, moved down the track by a wrecker, and later burned. The Belamose company was Rocky Hill's
largest taxpayer for many years and in 1932 had 400 employees. The factory property passed to Bigelow-Sanford, later to American
Enka, and finally was donated to the town on 1/1/1966 when the latter company shut down operations. We do not know if anything
replaced the coach for workers commuting here after 1929. Our thanks to the Rocky Hill Historical Society [click here] for their hospitality and assistance. [REFS: HC/08/30/1923/17; HC/06/19/1924/10; HT/03/16/1925(?); HC/09/22/1932/18; HC/12/30/1965/26A]
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DYKE [> HARTFORD3]
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