Rahway station

Rahway
48
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	8[1]
History
Opened	January 1, 1836[2]
Rebuilt	1885[3] November 1911[4]–July 26, 1913[5] March 1971[6]–August 28, 1975[7] January 1996–August 1998[8]
Electrified	December 8, 1932[9]
Key dates
November 12, 1884	Station depot burns[3]
November 1975	Amtrak service discontinued[10]
Passengers
2012	3,236 (average weekday)[11]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Metropark toward Trenton Northeast Corridor Line Linden toward New York Avenel toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line Linden toward New York or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Metropark toward Trenton Northeast Corridor Line North Rahway (closed 1993) toward New York Avenel toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line North Rahway (closed 1993) toward New York or Hoboken Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Metuchen toward Chicago Main Line Linden toward New York or Exchange Place Perth Amboy Junction toward New Brunswick New Brunswick Line Scott Avenue toward New York or Exchange Place Avenel toward Perth Amboy Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Branch Terminus

Rahway station is an NJ Transit train station in Rahway, New Jersey that is located 20.7 miles southwest of New York Penn Station, with service on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines.

History

The station first opened on January 1, 1836. The station is located in downtown Rahway on an embankment completed in 1913, with bridges over Milton Avenue and Irving and Cherry Streets. The present station was built by New Jersey Transit at a cost of $16 million and opened in early 1999. It replaced a passenger station built by the Penn Central and the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1974, which was an Amtrak stop from May 1971–November 1975.^[12][10] The City of Rahway completed a $600,000 public plaza in front of the station in 2001.

Another station in the city, North Rahway, previously existed at Scott Avenue, near the Merck facility, but was closed and demolished in 1993.

Platform layout

Rahway is just northeast of the

• Pennsylvania Railroad (March 9, 1886). Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders Presented at the Meeting Held March 9th, 1886. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retrieved April 19, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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