NJ Transit rail station
Glen Rock is one of two
railroad stations operated by
New Jersey Transit in the
borough of
Glen Rock ,
Bergen County ,
New Jersey ,
United States . Located on the
Main Line , the station is signed as Glen Rock–Main Line to differentiate it from the
Glen Rock–Boro Hall station , which lies two blocks east on Rock Road (
County Route 134 ) on the
Bergen County Line .
History
Glen Rock station,
c. 1907–1912
Service at Glen Rock began on October 19, 1848, with the opening of the
Paterson and Ramapo Railroad , which connected the
Erie Railroad at Suffern to the
Paterson and Hudson River Railroad in
Paterson . At that time, the station was known as Rock Road . The Erie Railroad, who took control of the Paterson and Ramapo, also opened a second station in Glen Rock, known as Ferndale in 1894.
[8]
Located at Ferndale Avenue south of the Rock Road station, a railroad terminal was built at Ferndale and served as the yard for the
Newark Branch of the Erie in 1902.
[9] The Erie discontinued that in 1903 when they finished the yard in Waldwick.
[10] The current station depot was finished in November 1905.
Station layout
The station has two tracks, each with a low-level
side platform . The station is not compliant with the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 .
References
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"List of Station Names and Numbers" .
Jersey City, New Jersey :
Erie Railroad . May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010 .
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"Synopsis of Erie History" . The Herald-News .
Passaic, New Jersey . April 2, 1963. pp. 1,
6 . Retrieved May 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, Past and Present .
Ridgewood, New Jersey : Citizens Semi-Centennial Association. December 1916. p. 112. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
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"Glen Rock Boasts One of the Prettiest of the Main Line of the Erie" . The Ridgewood Herald . November 3, 1905. p. 1. Retrieved June 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Common Council" .
The New York Herald . October 17, 1848. p. 1. Retrieved June 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Ramapo and Paterson and Paterson and Hudson River Railroads" . The Evening Post . New York, New York. December 7, 1848. p. 4. Retrieved June 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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"QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF) . New Jersey Transit. Archived from
the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013 .
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" "A boom in real estate..." " . The Ridgewood Herald-News . October 26, 1894. p. 5. Retrieved June 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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"North Paterson Erie Terminal" . The Paterson News . November 20, 1902. p. 1. Retrieved June 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Fine for Ridgewood" . The Paterson Morning Call . April 11, 1903. p. 5. Retrieved June 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
Media related to
Glen Rock-Main Line (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons
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