Lebanon station (NJ Transit)
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Lebanon | |||||||||||||
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 Lebanon station after the March 2017 North American blizzard. | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 1 Railroad Avenue, Lebanon, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°38′14″N 74°50′13″W / 40.6373°N 74.8370°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Raritan Valley Line | ||||||||||||
| Distance | 48.0 miles (77.2 km) from Jersey City[1] | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Accessible | No | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 20 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | July 4, 1852[2] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1854–1855 1900[3] | ||||||||||||
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| August 1964 | Station agent removed[4] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | 21 (average weekday)[5] | ||||||||||||
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Lebanon is a NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line in Lebanon, New Jersey. There is a station building on the north side of the tracks. It was designed in 1899 by New York City architect Bradford Gilbert for the Central Railroad of New Jersey.[6] The southern track is no longer in use and the stop has no weekend service. The station was purchased by the town in 1978.
Station layout
[edit]The station has a single low-level asphalt side platform. The platform is 97 feet (30 m) long and accommodates a single car.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ NJ Transit (2005). NJ Transit Rail Operations: Physical Characteristics. pp. 117–119, 142b, 173–182.
- ^ Lance, Jr., Howard P. (July 9, 1952). "Quiet Annandale Looks back on Century of History". The Plainfield Courier-News. pp. 1, 26. Retrieved August 2, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Cranford Wants New Depot". The Plainfield Courier News. May 24, 1900. p. 8. Retrieved January 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "High Iron Co., Rail Buff's Dream". The Plainfield Evening News. February 21, 1968. p. 87. Retrieved September 22, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
- ^ "Small Railroad Stations". The Railroad Gazette. 38 (1): 24. January 6, 1905 – via Google.
- ^ "RARITAN VALLEY LINE ONE-SEAT RIDE SERVICE TO MANHATTAN" (PDF). July 2020. pp. 75, 81. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
External links
[edit]- NJT Raritan Valley Line Information and Schedule Archived November 7, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
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