Roseville Avenue station

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Roseville Avenue
New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
  Montclair Branch
  Morristown Line
  Gladstone Branch
Tracks2 Montclair Branch, 3 Morris & Essex Lines
Other information
Station code409 (Morris and Essex Railroad)[1]
600 (Montclair Branch)[1]
History
ClosedSeptember 16, 1984[2]
RebuiltDecember 1905[3]
ElectrifiedSeptember 3, 1930[4]
Previous namesBloomfield Junction[5]
Former services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Grove Street
toward Gladstone
 Gladstone Branch Newark Broad Street
toward New York or Hoboken
Grove Street
toward Hackettstown
 Morristown Line
Ampere
toward Bay Street
 Montclair Branch Newark Broad Street
toward Hoboken
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Grove Street
toward Buffalo
 Main Line Newark
toward Hoboken
Ampere
toward Montclair
 Montclair Branch
Summit
toward Gladstone
 Gladstone Branch

Roseville Avenue was a transfer station on

Montclair Branch
. The station remained in service during most of the 20th century, until New Jersey Transit closed the station on September 16, 1984.

Today, the only landmarks that mark the former station site are a metal utility box labeled "Roseville," and several flights of concrete stairs in the sides of the concrete-lined depression in which the track of the Morristown Line runs between the

Denville
.

Station structure

Roseville Avenue station consisted of two different sets of double track to serve passenger trains for the

Montclair Branch (now the Montclair-Boonton Line) and the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad's Morris & Essex Lines (now the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch). The tracks were 22 feet (6.7 m) below the street level, and the station below street level was a brick passenger station extending to the Roseville Avenue bridge at Seventh Avenue. The other structure stood on street level, above the cut, served the Morris and Essex Line just north of the fork at Roseville. The station had four platforms, two for the Montclair Branch and two for the Morristown/Gladstone Lines in both direction.[6]

Roseville Tower was the interlocking tower at street-level in Roseville that handled the nearby fork of the three lines (Montclair, Morristown and Gladstone). The tower was used on limited services, with only three different shifts, two of which were staffed. The tower was run from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. staffed. The rest of the time, the tower was set on automatic.[6]

History

Original station and track depression

Roseville Avenue station before the track depressing in the 1890s

The original Roseville Avenue station dates back to the opening of the Morris & Essex Railroad Station in 1856, when tracks were constructed through the Roseville district of Newark.[7] These tracks ran between Orange Street and Seventh Avenue, until the Morris & Essex line branched off at Roseville Avenue and continued northwest, the original station serving both branches.[8] The station was designed with two platforms, one along each line, the Morris & Essex first made use of the Montclair Branch property in April 1868 after buying the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad.[9]

In April 1901, the

Oranges. Although the depression went into Newark, most of the debate over localities of stations was basically into the Oranges.[10] In 1903, the track depression reached the Roseville Avenue Station, and the lines were depressed through Roseville.[6] The new station built during the track depression was of similar style, with the station in the middle of the five-track interlocking, with one platform servicing the Montclair Branch's two tracks and one for the Main Line's two tracks. Rather than crossing at-grade, Roseville Avenue was bridged over the tracks with a brand new street-level interlocking tower present at the intersection of Roseville and Seventh Avenues.[11]

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and Erie–Lackawanna ownership

An Erie-Lackawanna train at Roseville Avenue in 1969

During the ownership of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Roseville Avenue prospered, soon receiving sixty-eight stops by trains daily. This caught attention during a 1913 complaint to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities by Charles McCausland. The major complaint from McCausland cited that the Lackawanna was not providing quality seating service on trains that stop at Roseville, and several which led to overcrowding, while several bypassing trains did not suffer from such effects. The plaintiff, McCausland, cited that the need for the sixty-eight trains was "additional but unnecessary". The Board of Public Utility Commissioners did not justify any changes or wrongdoing by the railroad, and as a result, no changes to service were made at Roseville Avenue.[12]

The station continued receiving major service over the next five decades, but by 1966, fewer trains stopped at the station, with limited daily service to the station past the 4:33 p.m. train from

Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), with service sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.[6]

New Jersey Transit use and eventual closure

Roseville Avenue's former Montclair Branch platforms in September 2014, 30 years after closing

After the takeover of service along the former Morris & Essex Lines by

Montclair Branch), both of which closed in April 1991.[16] On September 16, 1984, trains began bypassing Roseville Avenue, and the station was closed permanently.[2] Although the station was closed, Roseville Tower, for the interlocking between the Montclair Branch and Morris & Essex Lines, remained in service for almost two more decades. In 2002, during construction of the Montclair Connection, the tower was demolished in favor of expanding the cut in Roseville for a second track of the new Montclair-Boonton Line.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "List of Station Numbers". Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. 1952. p. 2. Retrieved June 2, 2019.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b Morris & Essex Lines Timetable (September 16, 1984 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 1984.
  3. ^ Taber & Taber 1980, p. 70
  4. ^ "D.L.&W. Electric Train Hoboken to Montclair". The Madison Eagle. September 5, 1930. p. 6. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ Taber & Taber 1981, p. 727
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-1-58248-214-9
    .
  7. ^ Urquhart, Frank John (1913). A History of the city of Newark, New Jersey. Vol. 1. Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
  8. ^ "Roseville Avenue station photograph". Roseville, Newark, New Jersey: Publisher unknown. 1890s. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
  9. ^ Travelers' official Guide of the Railways (1870 ed.). National Railway Publication Company. June 1, 1870.
  10. ^ "Suburban Railroad Changes" (PDF). The New York Times. New York, New York. April 28, 1901. p. 2. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
  11. ^ "Roseville Avenue station photograph". Roseville, Newark, New Jersey: Publisher unknown. 1903. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
  12. ^ Annual report of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners of the State of New Jersey (7 ed.). Trenton, New Jersey: Board of Public Utility Commissioners of the State of New Jersey. 1913. Retrieved 8 February 2010.
  13. Erie–Lackawanna Railroad
    . 1966.
  14. ^ Prial, Frank J. (June 24, 1972). "Erie-Lackawanna Plans To Add Commuter Trains". The New York Times. New York, New York. p. 62.
  15. ^ Morristown Line – Gladstone Branch – Montclair Branch Timetables (October 31, 1982 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 1982.
  16. ^ Morris & Essex Lines Timetable (April 7. 1991 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 1991.

References

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