Berkeley Heights station
40°40′56.75″N 74°26′33.75″W / 40.6824306°N 74.4427083°W
Berkeley Heights | |||||||||||||
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 The Berkeley Heights station facing towards the Lackawanna Railroad station depot. | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | Sherman Avenue & Plainfield Avenue | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Lakeland: 78 | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | 706 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 11 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | January 29, 1872[2] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1899[3] | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | January 6, 1931[4] | ||||||||||||
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| 1960 | Station agency closed[5] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 471 (average weekday)[6][7] | ||||||||||||
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Berkeley Heights is a New Jersey Transit station in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey along the Gladstone Branch of the Morris and Essex line. It is located on Sherman Avenue, at the corner of Plainfield Avenue. It is one block east of Springfield Avenue.
Station layout
The station has one low-level side platform.
| Ground/ Platform level |
Street level | Ticket machine, parking |
| Side platform, doors will open on the left or right | ||
| Track 1 | ← Gladstone Branch toward Gladstone (Gillette) Gladstone Branch toward Summit, Hoboken or New York (Murray Hill) → | |
References
- ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
- ^ Stitcher, Felecia (January 27, 1972). "100 Years Ago Saturday the Iron Horse Arrived". The Bernardsville News. p. 42. Retrieved October 17, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 725. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
- ^ "Bedecked Municipalities on P. & D. Branch Greet First Electric Train Run". The Plainfield Courier-News. January 7, 1931. pp. 1, 13. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Railroad to Drop Area Ticket Agent". The Courier-News. Plainfield, New Jersey. February 25, 1960. p. 28. Retrieved March 17, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ^ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
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