Cranford station

Cranford
Cranford station in August 2014.
General information
Location	South Avenue East, Cranford, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.6555°N 74.3028°W / 40.6555; -74.3028
Line(s)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 59 and 113 Olympia Trails: Westfield Commuter Service
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	7
History
Opened	1839
Rebuilt	1844, 1865, 1906, August 11, 1929
Previous names	French House (1839–c. 1865)
Passengers
2012	1,264 (average weekday)
Services
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Cranford is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Cranford, New Jersey. The current Cranford station was built in the mid-1930s by the Central Railroad of New Jersey on an embankment as part of a grade crossing elimination project. Three stations preceded the current building. The station building has a ticket office, waiting area, and offices. The platforms are accessed by stairs and elevators.

The New York/Newark-bound train is on the south side, while the train to points west is on the north side. Buses to New York, including rush hour express buses that are non-stop to NYC, stop on the north side of the station as well.

Following the implementation of the Aldene Plan in 1967, the station served as the western terminus of the Cranford–Bayonne Shuttle. The station is the eastern-most station on the old main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey still serving as station. Like several other New Jersey Transit lines a once a week freight train can be seen in the early morning hours at Cranford station (which the plan has been currently scrapped due to NJ Transit train delay issues).

Cranford station has been identified as a stop on the Union go bus expressway, a proposed bus rapid transit line utilizing the a portion of the abandoned Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) right-of-way between it and Midtown Station, a transit hub combining the NJT station and the former CNJ station in Elizabeth.

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms. Both were built as island platforms, though the northbound outer track has been removed and the southbound outer track is not built for platform access.

Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 1	← Raritan Valley Line toward Raritan or High Bridge (Garwood or Westfield)
Track 2	← Raritan Valley Line toward Newark – Penn or New York (Roselle Park) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
G	Street level	Station building, ticket machine, parking

External links

Media related to Cranford (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line
• Photo and brief narrated history of earlier Cranford station by Cranford resident Bernie Wagenblast
• Union Avenue / Walnut Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station from Google Maps Street View