South Orange station
South Orange | |||||||||||||||
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107 | |||||||||||||||
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Accessible | Yes (mini-platform) | ||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | September 17, 1837 (preliminary trip)[1] September 28, 1837 (regular service)[2][3] | ||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | February 1, 1916[4] | ||||||||||||||
Electrified | September 22, 1930[5] | ||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||
2017 | 4,131 (average weekday)[6][7] | ||||||||||||||
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South Orange Station | |||||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 84002669[8] | ||||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 |
South Orange is a
History
The railroad was raised to eliminate grade crossings in South Orange in the 1910s. A new station was constructed of dark brick with a green roof.[9]
Station owner
Station layout and service
As with nearly all stations on the Morris & Essex Lines east of
The western end of the platform for tracks 1 and 3 and the eastern end of the platform for track 2 contain high-level sections of platform. Installed in 2004, these allow those with handicaps to board and bring the station in compliance with ADA regulations.
Bus services are available on the 92 and 107 lines, with both the 92 and 107 terminating at South Orange, while the 92 heads to Branch Brook Park Light Rail Station, and the 107 express line (Irvington-New York) heads to Port Authority Bus Terminal.[14]
See also
- Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey)
- List of New Jersey Transit stations
References
- ^ "Morris and Essex is Seventy-Nine Years Old". The Madison Eagle. June 16, 1916. p. 10. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Walker, Herbert T. (1902). "Early History of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and it's Locomotives - Part 2: The Morris and Essex Railroad". Railroad Gazette. 34: 409. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
- Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. p. 339. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.
- ^ "Edison Pilots First Electric Train Over Orange-Hoboken Route". The Passaic Daily News. September 22, 1930. p. 5. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) 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.
- ^ Gordon, Reginald (March 1916). "New Stations on the Lackawanna and New York Central". Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way. Vol. 12, no. 3. pp. 83–85.
- ^ a b M&E station improvement and viaduct rehabilitation NJ Transit official site Retrieved 2007-08-06
- ^ NJ Transit approves $22.9 million in viaduct repairs Progressive Railroading Retrieved 2007-08-06
- ^ NJ Transit breaks ground on three-station rehab project Progressive Railroading Retrieved 2007-08-07
- ^ Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Employee Timetable, 1943.
- ^ "My Bus Now: 107". New Jersey Transit. August 10, 2023. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
External links
Media related to South Orange (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons