Plainfield station

Plainfield
General information
Location	North Avenue, between Gavett Place and Watchung Avenue Plainfield, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 59, 65, 66, 113, 114, 819, 822, and 986 (all buses except 986 on Watchung Avenue)
Construction
Bicycle facilities	Yes; bike racks
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	11
History
Opened	1839
Rebuilt	1873, 1901
Passengers
2012	893 (average weekday)
Services
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Plainfield Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Plainfield Station, 1907
Location	North Avenue, Plainfield, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°37′6″N 74°25′15″W
Area	3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built	1902 (1902)
Architectural style	Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002837
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

Plainfield is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. One of two train stations in Plainfield, this station serves the central part of the city. The ticket office and waiting area are in the south side station house (the eastbound platform). It was the westernmost station on the line with ADA accessibility, until Somerville station's new high-level platforms were opened on December 7, 2010.

History

Plainfield Station, ca. 1910

Plainfield Station was originally built by Bradford L. Gilbert and Joseph Osgood for the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1902. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Netherwood Station), whereas the community previously had five; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue, and another station named Evona. It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and along with Netherwood is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource. The station underwent a reconstruction project in 2010 and kept its listing.

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, New Jersey

External links

Media related to Plainfield (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line including Plainfield Station
• Raritan Valley Line (Unofficial NJTransit Homepage)
• Watchung Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Park Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View