Wallingford station is a

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on the

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located in

Wallingford, Connecticut Wallingford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, centrally located between New Haven and Hartford, and Boston and New York City. The population was 44,396 at the 2020 census. The community was named after Wallingford, in En ...

. It is served by the

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(consisting of

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and

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trains) and by

's , and . A new station with high-level platforms opened on November 6, 2017 to the north of the original station. The former station building is listed on the

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as Wallingford Railroad Station.

History

The depot at Wallingford was built in 1871 by the Hartford & New Haven Railroad on the Springfield Line, and was built in a

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style similar to that of the Windsor train station. The original station building was closed to the public in 1994 and is now used for adult education and the New Haven Model Railroad Club. The line through Wallingford was double-tracked until 1990 when the second track was removed. The original Wallingford station building has been listed on the

since 1993. A temporary platform replaced the former station platform on April 25, 2016. The temporary platform was used until the new station was completed. In fall 2016, the Wallingford Planning and Zoning Commission adopted a Transit-Oriented Development Plan, which outlined recommendations for development and infrastructure changes around the station. The existing commercial, industrial zone near the station, as part of the plan, will be replaced with medium- and high-density residential zoning. New commercial and residential development will be encouraged near the station and improvements will be made in the area of the station to connect to downtown Wallingford. Wallingford has two high-level

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s serving both tracks, each 6 cars long. The new station, which cost about $21 million to construct, opened on November 6, 2017. Amtrak's stopped serving the and Wallingford stations on June 9, 2018 due to the addition of

service by

and the

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