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Buses will be substituted for trains for late night service on Friday nights and all Saturdays and Sundays on April 28 to May 1 and from May 5 through May 7. Switching to buses will allow Metro-North crews to do further work on the tracks, the rail service announced. Service to and from all four stations on the branch will be affected: Glenbrook, Springdale, Talmadge Hill and New Canaan stations. These are the weekends that buses will substitute for trains. They’ll be leaving 20 minutes earlier than the trains are scheduled to leave:

March 24, 25 & 26
April 21, 22 & 23
April 28, 29 & 30
May 5, 6 & 7

Here’s the online announcement:

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Buses will replace most trains for Friday and weekend service on Metro-North’s New Canaan Branch starting this Friday and continuing through Aug. 21 as work is done on railroad crossings, Metro-North and the Connecticut Department of Transportation have announced. Here’s an emailed announcement, followed by images from a flyer distributed by the two organizations:

Substitute busing will be provided between New Canaan and Stamford stations for select trains on Fridays, and for all trains on Saturdays and Sundays, beginning Friday, July 22 through August 21. Note: Buses will operate 15 to 20 minutes earlier than scheduled trains. Please listen for announcements and check local or express bus service to your destination when boarding.

Metro-North work on improving the Camp Avenue railroad crossing is expected to shut down the street just to the east and west of the road from Friday, Aug. 21 to Thursday, Aug. 27, the Darien Department of Public Works has announced. Train service will be suspended just for that weekend — Saturday, Aug. 22 to Sunday, Aug.

Work on the railroad crossing on Talmadge Hill Road next to the train station there will shut the street for traffic at that spot from Friday, Aug. 14 through Thursday, Aug. 20, the Connecticut Department of Transportation has announced. If your commute normally has you driving from Old Stamford Road or Hoyt Street to Talmadge Road to get to the station, your route will be blocked. That area of Talmadge Hill Road, just over the border from Darien in New Canaan, is expected to be closed at that point starting at 10 am.

Some trains on the New Canaan Branch, including those stopping at the Glenbrook, Springdale and Talmadge Hill stations, will be replaced by buses on Friday nights and on weekends from July 31 to Aug. 23, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced.Trains for normal commuting times will not be affected, according to the announcement on the MTA website. The substitutions of bus service will take place for trains leaving the New Canaan station at 11:15 p.m. on Fridays, starting July 31 (this Friday), and for all weekend trains (leaving the station between 6:15 a.m. and 11:15 p.m.). Buses will leave 15 to 20 minutes earlier than the scheduled trains. Trains arriving at the New Canaan station 0n Fridays from 11:15 p.m. to 1:17 a.m. (and at the Talmadge Hill Railroad Station between 11:09 to 1:11 a.m.) will also be replaced by buses.

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Darien police and town officials expect the railroad crossing on Camp Avenue to be replaced in a project taking probably five to six days in late August, closing the road near Springdale Florist. The railroad crossing work will temporarily stop New Canaan Branch train service, at least to the Talmadge Hill and New Canaan railroad stations, said Darien Police Capt. Don Anderson. Metro-North Railroad would instead provide bus service. Anderson said Aug. 21 was the expected start date of the road closure, but Stamford officials were about to be consulted regarding a traffic detour through streets there, indicating the date might not be set in stone yet.