NJ Transit rail station
Watchung Avenue station as a train enters the station
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 Parking 95 permit spots Bicycle facilities No bicycle racks Station code 1739 (Erie Railroad)
[1] Fare zone 5 Opened January 1, 1873 Rebuilt March 19, 1901
[5] –1904 Electrified September 30, 2002 Previous names Park Street (January 1, 1873–March 31, 1919
[6] ) 2017 802 (average weekday)
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[8]
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 / 40.8296000; -74.2070500 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
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.
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Station layout
The station's low-level
side platforms are not wheelchair accessible.
References
^
"List of Station Names and Numbers" .
Jersey City, New Jersey :
Erie Railroad . May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010 .
^ 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 .
^
"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.
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"Montclair-Boonton Line" (PDF) .
New Jersey Transit . Archived from
the original (PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2015 .
Bibliography
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 .
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