Metro North service on the Danbury branch will be changed next month.  The state Department of Transportation has announced that the 4:29pm direct train from Grand Central Terminal to Danbury will be eliminated.  The service was added last May to replace a shuttle train that ran from Stamford to Danbury.  But the DOT and Metro North says very few customers are using the service. 

Of the 220 customers boarding in New York, 200 get off at Stamford and only 20 customers on average travel east of there.  The train will go back to being a shuttle and customers will leave on the 4:33 New Haven Line train. 

Metro North will be adding a through train to Danbury leaving Grand Central at 8:01pm, replacing the 9:18pm shuttle from South Norwalk.

Metro North is announcing more upcoming schedule changes to the trains on the Harlem line.  A new train from Grand Central to Southeast will be added and five trains that currently begin or end at Mount Kisko will be extended to Southeast. 

In an effort to reduce crowding , the 6:51am train from Southeast will now originate at Goldens Bridge.  Approximately 220 customers normally board at Southeast, Brewster, Croton Falls or Purdys.  The 7:01 train from Southeast will make fewer stops, including getting rid of the stop at White Plains, and will get in to Grand Central two minutes after the 6:51am train.  The 6am from Wassaic will depart eleven minutes earlier, at 5:49am.

Metro North's new train schedules will be effective Sunday, April 26.