Sanford station (Connecticut)

Sanford
Sanford station in 1916.
General information
Other names	Topstone, Sanford's
Coordinates	41°18′01″N 73°27′01″W / 41.300174°N 73.450182°W / 41.300174; -73.450182
Tracks	2
History
Opening	1852
Closed	1938
Electrified	1925
Location

Sanford station (also known as Sanford's and later called Topstone) was a passenger rail station on the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad and later the Danbury Branch of both the Housatonic Railroad and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. The station was located on the border between Ridgefield and Redding, Connecticut, and was located on Topstone Road. Opened in 1852 as a flag stop and located in the Topstone section of Redding, Connecticut, the original station building was destroyed in 1891 by a speeding freight train. A new station building was erected the following year and would serve until the station's closure in 1938. The station was called so because of the numerous families named Sanford in the area surrounding the station.^[1]