By the 1880s, three railroads served the city of Danbury: the Danbury and Norwalk, the Housatonic, and the New York and New England. By 1892, these had all merged with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Soon after, the public began to demand that the three separate stations be consolidated into one new station. Built in 1903, the resulting Union Station, designed by A. Malkin, has a Richardsonian Romanesque structure with Colonial Revival details. Alfred Hitchcock filmed station scenes for the 1951 film Strangers on a Train on the platform. The station eventually became the northern terminus of the Danbury Branch of Metro-North’s New Haven Line. Metro-North closed the station in 1993, but it was soon restored to become the Danbury Railway Museum. In 1998, the museum restored the original 1912 railroad turntable, essentially a swing bridge, located several hundred yards east of the passenger station.
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