Roselle Park (NJT station)

Roselle Park
Station statistics
Coordinates	40.6672°N 74.2666°W / 40.6672; -74.2666
Lines	Raritan Valley Line
Connections	NJT Bus: 94 and 113(S)
Platforms	Center Island Platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	April 30, 1967
Fare zone	7
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	854 (average weekday)  5.5%
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Cranford toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Union toward Hoboken

Roselle Park (Roselle Park, New Jersey) is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Conrail Lehigh Line, served by Raritan Valley Line trains direct to Hoboken, New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, Westfield, New Jersey, Plainfield, New Jersey, Raritan, New Jersey, and High Bridge, New Jersey. Passengers to Pennsylvania Station New York City ride to Pennsylvania Station Newark and change trains there.

The station is on West Lincoln Avenue between Chestnut Street and Locust Street, Roselle Park, Union County, New Jersey 07204, across the street from a bus stop on Routes 94 & 113 at West Lincoln and Chestnut.

History

The station is on the Conrail Lehigh Line, the former Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline, built in 1832 by LV subsidiary Newark & Roselle Railway. The second station to stand on the property, it was built in 1967 during the Aldene project which rerouted Central Railroad of New Jersey trains (one of NJ Transit's predecessor railroads) to Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey. [1]

When bankruptcy struck the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the CNJ was forced to fold into the Consolidated Rail Corporation on April 1, 1976. On that date, the New Jersey Department of Transportation took over commuter rail operations. In 1981 the State of New Jersey created New Jersey Transit to oversee all commuter operations, rail and bus, in the state. Since then, NJTransit has continued to operate and improve services on the Raritan Valley Line service.

The station has a gauntlet track (a slightly shifted-over track) on the eastbound side that allows freight trains to pass the high level platform safely. Despite the high level platform, Roselle Park is not accessible to wheelchairs due to the lack of a ramp or elevator to reach street level.

External links

• NJT rail station information page for Roselle Park
• DepartureVision real time train information for Roselle Park
• Raritan Valley Line schedule
• Official Borough of Roselle Park Website
• Roselle Park Photos @ rrpicturearchives.net
• Roselle Park Photos @ Railpictures.net
• world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line
• Unofficial NJTransit Homepage