Highland Avenue station (NJ Transit)
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Highland Avenue | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Scotland Road & Highland Avenue Orange, NJ | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°45′56″N 74°14′42″W / 40.76556°N 74.24500°W | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |  NJT Bus: 92 ONE Bus: 44 | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||||
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| Rebuilt | 1905, 1916–1918[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Electrified | September 22, 1930[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Orange Valley (1858–1890)[3] | ||||||||||||||
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| 2017 | 233 (average weekday)[4][5] | ||||||||||||||
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Highland Avenue is a New Jersey Transit station in Orange, New Jersey along the Morris & Essex Lines (formerly Erie Lackawanna Railway). Service is available via the Kearny Connection to Secaucus Junction and Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and to Hoboken Terminal. Passengers can transfer at Newark Broad Street or Summit to reach the other destination if necessary.
Station layout
The station has two low-level side platforms serving the outer tracks. The north platform has a walkway over the Track 3 to access Track 1, though trains on Track 1 do not typically stop at this station and is instead used as an express track.
| Ground/ platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Track 3 | ← Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Mountain Station) ← Gladstone Branch toward Gladstone (Mountain Station) | |
| Track 1 | ← Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch do not stop here → | |
| Track 2 | Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch toward Hoboken or New York (Orange) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Street level | Station building, ticket machines, parking | |
References
- ^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 85. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 740. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
- ^ "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 2018-07-18.
External links
- Mitchell Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Stetson Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Station House from Google Maps Street View
- Freeman Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
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