Metuchen station

Metuchen
Looking towards New York on the inbound platform.
General information
Location	Main Street & Woodbridge Avenue Metuchen, NJ United States
Coordinates	40°32′26.70″N 74°21′37.22″W
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Northeast Corridor
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	NJT Bus: 810, 813, and 819
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	11
History
Opened	1888
Rebuilt	1979
Passengers
2012	3,810 (average weekday)
Services
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Metuchen is a New Jersey Transit station on the Northeast Corridor Line, in Metuchen, New Jersey. It is on Main Street between Pennsylvania and Woodbridge Avenues; the platforms are on an overpass over Main Street. The New York City-bound platform and station office are accessible from Woodbridge Avenue, while the Trenton-bound platform is accessible from Pennsylvania Avenue. There is a station office but no station agents and passengers must use a ticket machine. There is a newsstand in the waiting room of the northbound platform that operates on weekday mornings during rush hour. A private concierge service operated between 2001–2003, but is now closed. There is, however, a taxi stand on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the station.

History

The station, c. 1940

The station was built in 1888 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and it was significantly renovated in 1979.

External links

• Media related to Metuchen (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons