Wood-Ridge station

Wood-Ridge

The Wood-Ridge station in September 2011, from the bridge above the station.
Location Park Place East (under NJ 17 / Bergen County Route 36 interchange)
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°50′37″N 74°04′44″W / 40.8437°N 74.0789°W / 40.8437; -74.0789Coordinates: 40°50′37″N 74°04′44″W / 40.8437°N 74.0789°W / 40.8437; -74.0789
Owned by New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
  Pascack Valley Line
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Other information
Station code 763 (Erie Railroad)[1]
Fare zone 3[2]
History
Rebuilt 1967[3]
Previous names Wood-Ridge-Moonachie[4]
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 302 (average weekday)[5]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
Pascack Valley Line
toward Hoboken
Preceding station   Erie Railroad   Following station
Carlstadt
New Jersey and New York Railroad
Hasbrouck Heights
toward Haverstraw
Not to be confused with Woodbridge station on the North Jersey Coast Line.

Wood-Ridge (formerly known as Wood-Ridge-Moonachie[4]) is a New Jersey Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line. The station is in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey and is located at Park Place East, near the intersection of Route 17. The station originates back to the 1860s as part of the Hackensack and New York Railroad. The station at Wood-Ridge was soon replaced by a larger building on the opposite side of the tracks until 1967, when a widening of Route 17 caused the need to demolish the station depot. Along with Wood-Ridge, Carlstadt, Hasbrouck Heights and Williams Avenue stations were all demolished.[3] The Pascack Valley line services this station seven days a week.

Until 2016, the Wood-Ridge station was the only one to serve the town. This changed when the Wesmont station serving the Bergen County Line opened near Wood-Ridge's border with Wallington.

Station layout

1 ■ Pascack Valley Line toward Spring Valley (Teterboro)
■ Pascack Valley Line toward Hoboken (Secaucus Junction)

The station has one track and one low-level side platform.

References

  1. ↑ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Pascack Valley Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Jones, Wilson E. (1996). The Pascack Valley Line - A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad. East Hanover, New Jersey: Railroadians of America. ISBN 0-941652-14-9.
  4. 1 2 Yanosey, Robert J. (2006). Erie Railroad Facilities (In Color). 1. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 100–101. ISBN 1-58248-183-0.
  5. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS". New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
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