Talk:New London Union Station

Longest Continuous Trip

The longest continuous commuter rail trip description on this page glosses over the fact that Metro-North serves Grand Central Terminal, and New Jersey Transit serves Penn Station in New York City. As a result, a transfer via the New York City Subway, which is not a commuter rail service, is needed to make a trip by train from New London to Newark, DE without involving Amtrak branded trains. JNW2 (talk) 03:49, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

The whole direct service to the Meadowlands is a mute point. That direct train only runs on Sundays for 1pm games, and on weekends there is no Shore Line East train service to New London, all trains turn at Old Sadybrook. Cluefinder42 (talk) 03:17, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

You know, it looks as though someone put in a tremendous effort on that section, but it seems so totally irrelevant. Shouldn't it be deleted?Khan_singh (talk) 04:38, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

It's been a few months and no objections. Removed. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:11, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Side note: I removed the identical section from Newark station a few days ago. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 15:03, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Cleanup

I did some cleanup on the article just now, mainly moving two paragraphs about the station's design to their own paragraph. I also edited the intro and the (way too long) section about the continuous trip.

Does the article need the NRHP navbox at the bottom? I feel it clutters the page, and it's not really needed - the box on the right gives all the necessary information. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:21, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

The station is on the NRHP, so yes. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 14:24, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Ha, wow, I asked that question when still a newbie. I'm a lot better at incorporating NRHP infoboxes now :) Pi.1415926535 (talk) 15:02, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, well somebody had to answer it. :) I'm glad you're better at it too. I had a hard time combining railroad and NRHP infoboxes at first myself. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 16:05, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Line to Amherst?

According to the Museum of Railway Timetables Amtrak also used the former Central Vermont Railway line for a direct connection to Amherst (Amtrak station). Can anybody tell me which Amtrak service used this line? ----DanTD (talk) 12:50, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

The Vermonter used the line from 1989 to 1995 (ish) while the west-of-CT-River tracks were in bad repair. I don't personally know of any other NL-Amherst service; I believe the Vermonter was the first passenger service on the line since WWII era. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:57, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Montrealer, actually (forerunner). See [1]. Fascinating; never knew that. Mackensen (talk) 03:29, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Layout Clarification

Can it be made more clear exactly which platforms (high or low) the Shore Line East service uses? There is a kind of passing sentence given to the fact that that service uses track 6 furthest from the station, now, but explanation of the platforms its usese is given short shrift, while there is a very detailed explanation (maybe overly detailed) of how NEC trains access the platforms. --Criticalthinker (talk) 16:30, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

I've added {{New London Union Station}} which should clarify the matter. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:23, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

This wording is confusing:

The northbound platform, currently a side platform, can serve as an island platform should passenger service return to the NECR track. The 2010 SCCOG report indicated that Amtrak wished Shore Line East to move its operations to Track 6, freeing the mainline tracks for through trains.[30] In 2013, most Shore Line East trains began using Track 6. Most passengers use the low-level section of the platform south of State Street, but a short metal spur on the high-level platform provides handicapped accessible accessible boarding for trains using the track.[29] A low-level section of the northbound platform also remains north of the high-level section; it has not been used since the high-level section was constructed.

Surely with the SLE move to Track 6 in 2013 the northbound platform is now an island platform? Mackensen (talk) 17:59, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

I'd say you can argue it either way, and kind of depends on whether you consider the low-level platforms serving Track 6 (both directions SLE) and Track 2 (northbound Amtrak NE Regional) an actual extension of the high-level platform on Track 2, or its own seperate platform. The high-level Track 2 platform only serves as a side platform and is fenced off to Track 6. I really don't know. The layout of this station is so funky. --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:32, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Some clarification by means of images:

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  The only Track 6 access from the NB (Track 2) high-level platform, generally used only for passengers who cannot use steps
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  Track 6/2 platform south of State Street, generally used only for Track 6
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  SLE train at the grade crossing; passengers generally deboard directly to the pavement here

Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:14, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Congrats!

Pretty much what it looked like

I couldn't believe my eyes on the Main Page today when I saw the main photo! Congratulations to all the editors who made this article to the front page with the DYK photo.— JJBers (talk) 19:47, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
(P.S, this is the closest Amtrak train station to me.)

I have to say I greatly enjoyed this article too. Thanks for all your efforts! Abductive (reasoning) 19:50, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

I sadly didn't help much with the article due to me focusing more northern areas. I really don't have much on it aswell due to me still being 35 mintues away, and not really using the station ever. But hey, I was right across the river in Groton in July!— JJBers (talk) 19:59, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Unknown line error

@RickyCourtney: Please review diff which is the reason for the error (Unknown line "Acela") in the infobox. Someone at the trains wikiproject will know how to fix this. Johnuniq (talk) 03:59, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

@Johnuniq Corrected. RickyCourtney (talk) 04:06, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

The issue is Amtrak rebranded the Acela Express to simply the Acela a few years back. The template is still using the old name. I see it's already been taken care of. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 01:45, 21 April 2022 (UTC)