User:Mitchazenia/Lambertville station
Lambertville | ||||||||||||||||
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| Former Pennsylvania Railroad station | ||||||||||||||||
 Lambertville station in September 2013. | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | 11 Bridge Street (Route 179), Lambertville, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°19′58″N 74°36′12″W / 40.332790°N 74.603373°W | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Belvidere Division | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | February 6, 1851 (revenue service)[1] December 4, 1854 (Flemington revenue service)[2] | |||||||||||||||
| Closed | October 29, 1960[3] | |||||||||||||||
| Former services | ||||||||||||||||
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Lambertville is a defunct commuter railroad station in the city of Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Located on the Delaware River at the base of the New Hope–Lambertville Bridge on Bridge Street (Route 179), the station served trains of the Belvidere Delaware Railroad, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which ran between Manunka Chunk and Trenton. The next station to the south was Washington Crossing while the next station to the north was Stockton. Lambertville station also served as the end of a secondary branch, the Flemington Branch, to which the next station northeast was Alexauken. Lambertville station contained a single side platform.
Service in Lambertville began on February 6, 1851 with the opening of the Belvidere and Delaware Railroad from Trenton, acting as a subsidiary of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. Regular revenue service to Flemington from Lambertville began on December 4, 1854.
Station layout and services[edit]
| Inbound/Outbound | ← Belvidere Division weekdays toward Trenton (Washington Crossing) | Belvidere Division weekdays toward Manunka Chunk (Stockton) → |
| Side platform, station depot[nb 1] | ||
History[edit]
Penn Central, dealing with bankruptcy issues, attempted to auction the station depot at Lambertville in August 1979. However, Charles Willner, a developer from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania's $220,000 (1979 USD) bid did not meet terms of agreement. In April 1980, Robert and Rosemary Cobb won a second auction at $175,000, to which they wanted to turn it into a restaurant. However, in order to acquire the depot, the Cobbs would need to gain approval from multiple local agencies, including the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.[4]
Notes[edit]
- ^ The graphic reflects the end of passenger service on October 29, 1960.
Bibliography[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Baer, Christopher T. (March 2005). "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1851" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. p. 4. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
- ^ Baer, Christopher T. (March 2005). "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1854" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. p. 34. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
- ^ Baer, Christopher T. (April 2015). "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1960" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. p. 26. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
- ^ Nutile, Tom. "Bridgewater Couple Buys Railroad Station". The Courier-News. Bridgewater, New Jersey. p. B4. Retrieved November 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
