Watchung Avenue (known as Park Street until April 1, 1919) is a New Jersey Transit station at the intersection of Watchung Avenue, Watchung Plaza, and Park Street in Montclair, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The Watchung Avenue station is on an elevated embankment between Watchung Plaza and Park Street. The outbound platform faces the plaza, while the inbound platform and the station house are on the Park Street side. The station house has a waiting room with a bathroom and a former post office and ticket booth. Service to and from this station is weekdays (Monday to Friday) only, with all service stopping at intermediate points.[10]
Watchung Ave. | |||||||||||||
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 Watchung Avenue station as a train enters the station | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | 396 Park Street Montclair, New Jersey 07042 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 low-level side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  NJT Bus: 28, 101 | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | 95 permit spots | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No bicycle racks | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | 1739 (Erie Railroad)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | January 1, 1873[2][3][4] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | March 19, 1901[5]–1904 | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | September 30, 2002 | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Park Street (January 1, 1873–March 31, 1919[6]) | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 802 (average weekday)[7][8] | ||||||||||||
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Watchung Avenue Station | |||||||||||||
 The Watchung Avenue station depot in December 2014. | |||||||||||||
| Location | Montclair, New Jersey, USA | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°49′46.56″N 74°12′25.38″W / 40.8296000°N 74.2070500°W | ||||||||||||
| Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) | ||||||||||||
| Built | 1873 | ||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Renaissance | ||||||||||||
| MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 84002674[9] | ||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 | ||||||||||||
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Station layout
editThe station's low-level side platforms are not wheelchair accessible.
References
edit- ^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
- ^ Catlin 1873, p. 33.
- ^ Whittemore 1894, p. 47.
- ^ Baxter & Adams 1999, p. 147.
- ^ Ziobro, Paul A. (April 8, 2004). "Rehab Project Slated for Watchung Station". The Montclair Times. p. A9. Retrieved January 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Watchung is Back Again". The New York Sun. March 31, 1919. p. 9. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Montclair-Boonton Line" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
Bibliography
edit- Baxter, Raymond J.; Adams, Arthur G. (1999). Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand. Fordham, New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823219544.
- Catlin, George L. (1873). Homes on the Montclair Railway, for New York Business Men. A Description of the Country Adjacent to the Montclair Railway, Between Jersey City and Greenwood Lake. New York, New York: Montclair Railway Company.
- Whittemore, Henry (1894). History of Montclair Township, State of New Jersey: Including the History of Families who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Prosperity. New York, New York: The Suburban Publishing Company. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
External links
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