Hackettstown
Hackettstown station along the Washington Secondary, owned by NJ Transit as viewed from next to the mini-high level platform at the northern end of the platform.
General information
Location	Beatty Street and Valentine Street, Hackettstown, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°51′07″N 74°50′05″W / 40.85194°N 74.83472°W / 40.85194; -74.83472
Owned by	New Jersey Transit (station and trackage)
Line(s)	Morristown Line Washington Secondary
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Construction
Parking	Hourly and reserved
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	911 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western) [1]
Fare zone	19
History
Opened	January 16, 1854 (Morris and Essex Railroad) [2] October 31, 1994 (NJ Transit) [3]
Closed	September 30, 1966 [4]
Rebuilt	1868
Electrified	No
Passengers
2017	85 (average weekday) [5] [6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Terminus Montclair-Boonton Line limited service Mount Olive toward New York or Hoboken Morristown Line limited service
Former services Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Port Murray toward Portland or Phillipsburg Old Main Line Mount Olive toward Lake Hopatcong

Hackettstown is a New Jersey Transit station in Hackettstown, New Jersey. The station is located at the intersection of Valentine Street and Beatty Street and is the western terminus of the Morristown Line and the Montclair-Boonton Line, which both provide service to Hoboken Terminal or to Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan via Midtown Direct. Hackettstown station is the only active New Jersey Transit station in Warren County. The line from Hackettstown–Dover is diesel powered, requiring a transfer at Dover, Montclair State University or Newark Broad Street to an electrified train to New York Penn Station.^{[ citation needed]} Proposals exist of an extension of the Montclair-Boonton Line, including an extension to Washington and possibly Phillipsburg further along the Washington Secondary. ^[7]

History

Service west of Netcong station began on October 31, 1994, with an extension of the Boonton Line westward along Conrail's Washington Secondary. The station was opened along with Mount Olive station ^[8] near Waterloo Village and the International Trade Center in the namesake township. Originally, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) served Hackettstown with a large station in downtown Hackettstown for its Old Main alignment. The large wooden station was a Type W-2 station (from DL&W railroad documents) built in 1868. Hackettstown station was razed in the late 1960s ^[9] after passenger service on most Erie-Lackawanna Railroad branches terminated in October 1966. ^[10]

In 2023, NJ Transit purchased the Washington Secondary track from Netcong station to Hackettstown. Norfolk Southern retained an exclusive freight easement. ^{[11] [12]}

Station layout

Hackettstown has one low-level side platform.

See also

• Warren Railroad

References

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