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Redding (Metro-North station)

The Redding Metro-North Railroad station serves residents of Redding, Connecticut via the Danbury Branch of the New Haven Line. The station is called Redding in the Metro-North timetable, but the station is signed as West Redding, which is the name of the neighborhood within the town of Redding that the station is in.

The station is 58.7 miles to Grand Central and the average travel time from there to Grand Central Terminal is 1 hour, 49 minutes though this varies regardless of through trains or transfers at Stamford or South Norwalk.

The station has 82 parking spaces, all owned by the state.

Platform and track configuration

This station has one two-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the track. The Danbury Branch has one track at this location.

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External links

Media related to Redding (Metro-North station) at Wikimedia Commons

Redding, California

Redding, officially the City of Redding, is the county seat of Shasta County, California in the northern part of the state. It is located on the Sacramento River, which provided transportation and power in its early years. Interstate 5 passes close to the city, which has a population of 89,861. Redding is the largest city in the Shasta Cascade region, and it is the fourth-largest city in the Sacramento Valley, behind Sacramento, Elk Grove, and Roseville.

History

The site of Redding was settled by Native Americans of the Wintu tribe around the year 1000. Situated along the Siskiyou Trail, Redding became a stop on a trade and travel route connecting California's Central Valley and the Pacific Northwest. During the early 19th century, Hudson's Bay Company trappers and numerous European-American settlers passed through the site while traveling along the Siskiyou Trail.

The first European-American settler in the area was Pierson B. Reading, an early California pioneer. He was an admirer of John Sutter. In 1844, Reading received the Rancho Buena Ventura Mexican land grant for the area occupied by today's Redding and Cottonwood, California, along the Sacramento River. At the time it was the northernmost nonnative settlement in California.