Bridgeport station (Connecticut) suspected pending completion of an investigation. As of August 2006, average weekday commuter ridership was 3,120 passengers. Bridgeport is the busiest Metro-North station between and New Haven's Union Station. The station has 1,453 parking spaces, with 950 owned by the state. Bridgeport station (Connecticut) The Bridgeport station is a shared Amtrak, Metro-North Railroad, and Shore Line East train station along the Northeast Corridor serving Bridgeport, Connecticut and nearby towns. On Metro-North, the station is the transfer point between the Waterbury Branch and the New Haven mainline. Amtrak's inter-city "Northeast Regional" and "Vermonter" service also stop at the station, as do
History of Bridgeport, Connecticut of deindustrialization and declining population, though it overtook Hartford as the state's most populous city by 1980. Much of the land that became Bridgeport was originally occupied by the Pequonnock Indians of the Paugussett nation. One village consisted of about five or six hundred inhabitants in approximately 150 lodgings. Other than Black Rock and Parts of Brooklawn which were originally part of the township of Fairfield, Bridgeport was originally a part of the township of Stratford. The first English settlement on the west bank of the mouth of the Pequonnock River was made in about 1665 and was called Pequonnock.