Blairstown station
Appearance
BLAIRSTOWN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
General information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Hope Road (CR 521) Blairstown Township, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°58′06″N 74°57′14″W / 40.968200°N 74.953783°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Main Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 243 spaces (proposed)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1911[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | proposed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Blairstown was one of the three original stations on the Lackawanna Cut-Off rail line in northwestern New Jersey. Built by contractor Hyde, McFarlan & Burke, the station opened in 1911. Most passenger trains, such as the Lackawanna Limited and, later, the Phoebe Snow stopped at Blairstown, which also sold commuter tickets. It was the only station on the Cut-Off to remain open until passenger service ended in January 1970. After 1970, the building housed a radio station, WHCY-FM, until the 1990s. The station building is currently privately owned.
Blairstown is slated to become a station stop once again if a proposal by New Jersey Transit to restore rail service to Scranton, Pennsylvania, comes to fruition.
References
- ^ "Northwest New Jersey - Northeast Pennsylvania Rail Corridor Lackawanna Cutoff" (pdf). New Jersey Transit. November 2005. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
- ^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 727. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
Categories:
- Lackawanna Cut-Off
- Proposed railway stations in the United States
- Proposed NJ Transit rail stations
- Former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad stations
- Railway stations opened in 1911
- Railway stations closed in 1970
- Proposed public transportation in New Jersey
- 1911 establishments in New Jersey
- New Jersey railway station stubs