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Wallingford station is an Amtrak train station in Wallingford, Connecticut. It serves the, and the Vermonter lines. The station is located adjacent to the town green, between Hall Avenue and Quinnipiac Avenue, near where both intersect with Colony Street (U.S. Route 5).A new station with high-level platforms is under construction to the north of the existing station; it will open for Amtrak service in late 2017 and new Hartford Line commuter rail service in May 2018.HistoryThe depot at Wallingford was built in 1871 by the Hartford & New Haven Railroad on the Springfield Line, and was built in a French Second Empire style similar to that of Windsor Station.Only the platform at Wallingford remains in use by Amtrak today; the station building was closed to the public in 1994 and is now used for adult education and the New Haven Model Railroad Club. The line through Wallingford was double-tracked until 1990 when the second track was removed. Today there are 15 passenger trains a day in addition to a daily round-trip freight on the Springfield Line during the daytime. Wallingford station has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1993. There are currently plans by Amtrak and the Connecticut Department of Transportation to add a new service called the Hartford Line. A new station is under construction half a mile to the north on Parker Street to accommodate the increased number of passengers.