East Orange station

East Orange

The East Orange station in April 2015, facing toward Brick Church.
Location 65 City Hall Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Owned by New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
  Gladstone Branch
  Morristown Line
Platforms 1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks 3
Connections NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, and 94
Community Coach: 77
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone

4

East Orange Station

East Orange station depot.
Location in Essex, County, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°45′40.8″N 74°12′39.5″W / 40.761333°N 74.210972°W / 40.761333; -74.210972Coordinates: 40°45′40.8″N 74°12′39.5″W / 40.761333°N 74.210972°W / 40.761333; -74.210972
Built 1921
Architectural style Other, Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference # 84002638[1]
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984
History
Opened November 19, 1836
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 282 (average weekday)[2]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Gladstone
Gladstone Branch
toward Hackettstown
Morristown Line
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
toward Buffalo
Main Line
Grove Street
toward Hoboken

East Orange is a New Jersey Transit station on the Morris and Essex line in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. This elevated station was built in 1923 for the Lackawanna and now has trains from the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch, including service to Hoboken Terminal and Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is next to the westbound lanes of Interstate 280 about five hundred yards west of the Garden State Parkway. The East Orange City Hall is north of the station.

The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984,[3] listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[4]

ADA accessibility and viaduct improvements

Station owner New Jersey Transit decided to perform work at East Orange station to improve accessibility for the handicapped and to repair eighty-year-old viaducts at the station.[5] At a cost of $22.9m, repair work at East Orange, along with nearby stations Brick Church and South Orange, commenced in 2004.[6] East Orange received a mini-high level platform, the tracks surrounding the station were upgraded with concrete ties and the stairways leading to the platforms were replaced.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS". New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ Monmouth County Listings, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed September 2, 2007.
  4. ↑ East Orange New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
  5. ↑ M&E station improvement and viaduct rehabilitation NJ Transit official site Retrieved 2007-08-06
  6. ↑ NJ Transit approves $22.9 million in viaduct repairs Progressive Railroading Retrieved 2007-08-06
  7. ↑ NJ Transit breaks ground on three-station rehab project Progressive Railroading Retrieved 2007-08-07

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