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Madison (Shore Line East Station)
Madison is a passenger rail station along CTrail's Shore Line East commuter rail line, which runs on the Northeast Corridor between New Haven and New London. Madison station consists of a mid-sized parking lot and one high-level side platform on the southbound side of the tracks. Madison is a commuter-only station; Amtrak's ''Acela Express'' and ''Northeast Regional'' services run through the station without stopping. Madison is served by about 11 Shore Line East trains in each direction on weekdays and 5 in each direction on weekends. History New Haven Railroad The New Haven & New London Railroad was charted in 1848, began construction in 1850, and opened for service in July 1852. A station similar to other on the line was located off Wall Street just north of downtown Madison. The line was owned by the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (the "Stonington Road") from 1858 to 1862, and by the Shore Line Railway from 1864 until it was acquired by the New York, New Have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison, Connecticut
Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, occupying a central location on Connecticut's Long Island Sound shoreline. The population was 17,691 at the 2020 census. Madison was first settled in 1641. Throughout the 18th century, Madison was known as East Guilford until it was incorporated as a town in 1826. The present name is after James Madison, 4th President of the United States. Beaches Hammonasset Beach State Park possesses the state's longest public beach, with campsites, picnic areas, and a fishing pier, and is extremely popular in the summer, causing traffic jams on I-95 on peak days. Surf Club Beach is the town's major public beach with lifeguards and recreational facilities for baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, and horseshoes. It features playgrounds for children and picnic tables for families, as well as sailboat and kayak racks. It is also home to several athletic fields, including Strong Field, the town's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York, Providence And Boston Railroad
The New York, Providence and Boston Railroad, normally called the Stonington Line, was a major part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between New London, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island. It is now part of Amtrak's high-speed Northeast Corridor. History Prior to the building of the NYP&B, travelers between New York City and Boston had to pass around Point Judith, Rhode Island and its rough waters to reach the Boston and Providence Railroad in Providence. The B&P was completed in 1835 and began operating the steamer ''Lexington'' between Providence and New York, adding the ''Massachusetts'' in 1836. The New York and Stonington Railroad was chartered in Connecticut in May 1832 and the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad in Rhode Island in June of that year to fix the problem. On July 1, 1833 they consolidated to form a new New York, Providence and Boston Railroad. Ground was broken by the subsidiary Providence and Stonington Railroad at Stonington, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accessibility
Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design and practice of accessible development ensures both "direct access" (i.e. unassisted) and "indirect access" meaning compatibility with a person's assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity. The concept focuses on enabling access for people with disabilities, or enabling access through the use of assistive technology; however, research and development in accessibility brings benefits to everyone. Accessibility is not to be confused with usability, which is the extent to which a product (such as a device, service, or environment) can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, convenience, or satisfaction in a specified context of use. Accessibility is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA () is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. In addition, unlike the Civil Rights Act, the ADA also requires covered employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities, and imposes accessibility requirements on public accommodations. In 1986, the National Council on Disability had recommended the enactment of an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and drafted the first version of the bill which was introduced in the House and Senate in 1988. A broad bipartisan coalition of legislators supported the ADA, while the bill was opposed by business interests (who argued the bill imposed costs on busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison Station Platform, June 2013
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Beacon Hill (train)
The ''Beacon Hill'' was a daily commuter rail service operated by Amtrak between Boston, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut, from 1978 to 1981. The ''Beacon Hill'' was one of the last long-haul commuter services operated by Amtrak. Service consisted of a single rush-hour round trip, with service eastbound to Boston in the morning and westbound to New Haven in the evening. History Previous service By the time the New Haven Railroad folded into Penn Central in 1969, commuter service between New Haven and Providence had been reduced to a handful of daily trips. (Commuter service west of New Haven continued under Penn Central and Conrail then Metro-North Railroad, while Boston-Providence service was taken over by the MBTA in 1975). The '' Clamdigger'' operated as a daily local from New London to New Haven under Amtrak until January 28, 1972. It returned as a Providence-New Haven local on September 9, 1976; it was discontinued on October 30, 1977, but resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branford Station
Branford is a station along the CTrail Shore Line East commuter railroad between Stamford and New London, Connecticut. The station itself is located in Branford, Connecticut. Branford is also a station on the northern section Northeast Corridor. Amtrak does not stop at the station but Amtrak trains pass through it. History Prior to the establishment of the Shore Line East system on May 29, 1990, Branford was a stop for Amtrak's '' Beacon Hill'' trains. The current station, with an ADA-compliant high-level side platform, opened on August 8, 2005, replacing a nearby earlier station with low-level platforms. Ridership increases rendered the 199-spot parking lot at Branford insufficient. As a result, a 272-spot expansion was opened in June 2011, bringing total available parking at the station to 471 spots. However, the expanded lot has consistently failed to be fully used, leading to calls for it to be replaced by transit oriented development and a smaller parking deck. A second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clinton Station (Connecticut)
Clinton station is a regional rail station served by the CTrail Shore Line East service located near downtown Clinton, Connecticut. The station has two side platforms connected by a footbridge. Clinton is a commuter-only station; Amtrak's ''Acela Express'' and ''Northeast Regional'' services run through the station without stopping. History New Haven Railroad The New Haven & New London Railroad was charted in 1848, began construction in 1850, and opened for service in July 1852. A combination depot (serving both freight and passengers) similar to others on the line was located on the south side of the tracks east of John Street in downtown Westbrook. The line was owned by the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (the "Stonington Road") from 1858 to 1862, and by the Shore Line Railway from 1864 until it was acquired by the New Haven Railroad in 1870. In the 1890s, the New Haven double-tracked and straightened several sections of the Shore Line. The sharp curve in downt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groton Station (Connecticut)
Groton station was one of the shortest-lived Amtrak passenger rail stations, in service from January to April 1978 during the last incarnation of Amtrak's '' Clamdigger'' service. Previous stations at several locations in Groton were served from 1852 until the mid-20th century. History In May 1852, the New London & Stonington was chartered to build a railroad from Stonington to Groton, completing the last major section of the "Shore Line" rail link from Boston to New York City. The NL&S failed in early 1857 and was combined with the New Haven and New London Railroad into the New Haven, New London, & Stonington Railroad on March 6, 1857. The extension opened to Groton Wharf on December 30, 1858. Previously, passengers had to board steamships from Stonington to Long Island or New York, but after 1858 only short ferry trips over the Connecticut River and the Thames River were required. In November 1859 the line was leased to the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; through pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgeport Telegram
The ''Connecticut Post'' is a daily newspaper located in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It serves Fairfield County, Connecticut, Fairfield County and the Lower Naugatuck Valley. Municipalities in the Post's circulation area include Ansonia, Connecticut, Ansonia, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bridgeport, Darien, Connecticut, Darien, Derby, Connecticut, Derby, Easton, Connecticut, Easton, Fairfield, Connecticut, Fairfield, Milford, Connecticut, Milford, Monroe, Connecticut, Monroe, New Canaan, Connecticut, New Canaan, Orange, Connecticut, Orange, Oxford, Connecticut, Oxford, Redding, Connecticut, Redding, Ridgefield, Connecticut, Ridgefield, Seymour, Connecticut, Seymour, Shelton, Connecticut, Shelton, Stratford, Connecticut, Stratford, Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull, Weston, Connecticut, Weston, Westport, Connecticut, Westport and Wilton, Connecticut, Wilton. The newspaper is owned and operated by the Hearst Communications, Hearst Corporation, a multinational corporation, multinational corp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clamdigger (train)
The ''Clamdigger'' was a daily passenger train which ran along the Northeast Corridor during the 1970s. The train had two iterations: from 1898 to 1972 it was a local commuter service under the New Haven Railroad, Penn Central, and Amtrak between New London and New Haven, while from 1976 to 1978 it was a long-distance commuter service operated by Amtrak from Providence to New Haven. In 1978, it was canceled and replaced with the '' Beacon Hill''. The Shore Line East service, run by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, currently runs from New London to New Haven, serving many of the same stops as the two incarnations of the ''Clamdigger''. Original service (1898–1972) New Haven Railroad The New Haven & New London Railroad was charted in 1848, began construction in 1850, and opened for service in July 1852. After several ownership changes, it was acquired by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad (the "New Haven") in 1870. In 1898, the New Haven introduced a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
