Orange is an active commuter railroad train station in the city of Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. One of two stops in the city (along with Highland Avenue), it is served by New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines: the Morristown Line to Hackettstown and the Gladstone Branch to Gladstone for trains from New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal. Orange station contains two low-level side platforms and three tracks.
Orange | |||||||||||||||
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 Dover-bound train approaches, in April 2015 | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | 52 Lincoln Avenue, Orange, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |  NJT Bus: 21, 24, 41, 44, 71, 73, 79, and 92 Community Coach: 77 | ||||||||||||||
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| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 4[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | November 19, 1836[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Electrified | September 22, 1930[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||
| 2017 | 1,401 (average weekday)[4][5] | ||||||||||||||
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Orange Station | |||||||||||||||
 The station depot at Orange. | |||||||||||||||
| Location | 73 Lincoln Avenue, Orange, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°46′18″N 74°14′2″W / 40.77167°N 74.23389°W | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) | ||||||||||||||
| Built | 1918 | ||||||||||||||
| Architect | Nies, F. J. | ||||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Renaissance | ||||||||||||||
| MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 84002665[6] | ||||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 | ||||||||||||||
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Orange station opened on November 19, 1836, with the opening of the Morris and Essex Railroad from Newark to Orange. The station served as the western terminus of the line until September 28, 1837, when the railroad started operations west to Madison station.[7] The current station depots and overhangs were built in 1918 with the elevation of tracks through the city by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The station depot at Orange station were added to the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1984 as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.
History
editThe brick station and nearby freight terminal were built in 1918. The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[8][9]
Station layout
editBoth platforms have walkways over their respective track allowing passengers to access Track 1, though trains on Track 1 do not typically stop at this station.
See also
editBibliography
edit- Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
- 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. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
References
edit- ^ "Morris and Essex Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 4, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ^ Douglass 1912, p. 339.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "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.
- ^ Walker 1902, p. 409.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
- ^ Orange New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
External links
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Media related to Orange (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons