Towaco station
Towaco | |||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 11[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | September 12, 1870 (freight service)[2] December 14, 1870 (passenger service)[3] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1910–1911,[4] 2000[5] | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Whitehall (–1905)[4] | ||||||||||||
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| 2017 | 80 (average weekday)[6][7] | ||||||||||||
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Towaco is a station on
Montville Township, Morris County, New Jersey. The station opened as Whitehall in 1870 along the Boonton Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
, and assumed its current name in 1905.
History
The station was first opened by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad as Whitehall. Renamed to Towaco in 1905,[8] a new depot was built in 1924 by the railroad with help from architect F.G. Neiss.[9] The depot replaced one built in the 1910s[4] and demolished in 1970.[9] NJ Transit rebuilt the structure in 2000.[9]
Station layout
The station has a single side platform on a single track, facing eastward. There are also two parking lots with 220 spots for free use. There is also a 600-square-foot (56 m2) brick shelter on the platform.
Bibliography
- Florio, Patricia (2017). Images of America: Montville Township: Celebrating 150 Years. ISBN 9781467126403.
- Lyon, Isaac S. (1873). Historical Discourse on Boonton, Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the Evenings of September 21 and 28, and October 5, 1867. Newark, New Jersey: The Daily Journal Office. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
References
- New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Archived from the original(PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ Arch, Brad (January 1982). "The Morris and Essex Railroad" (PDF). Journal of New Jersey Postal History Society. X (1): 4–8. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ^ Lyon 1873, p. 55.
- ^ ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
- ^ Florio 2017, p. 81.
- ^ "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.
- ISBN 978-1-58248-214-9.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
External links
Media related to Towaco (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons