Highland Avenue station (NJ Transit)
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Highland Avenue | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Scotland Road & Highland Avenue Orange, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||
| 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 an active commuter railroad station in the city of Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. One of two in the city, along with the eponymous Orange station, Highland Avenue is serviced by trains of New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines: the Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch. Trains through the station run between New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal to the east and Hackettstown and Gladstone. The station contains two low-level side platforms for the three tracks that run through the station.
The station opened as Orange Valley as a stop on the Morris and Essex Railroad, using that name until 1890.
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 weekdays toward Gladstone (Mountain Station) | |
| Track 1 | ← Morristown Line, Gladstone Branch do not stop here → | |
| Track 2 | Morristown Line, 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 April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ^ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
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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