User:Mitchazenia/Plainsboro station
Plainsboro | |||||||||||
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| Former Pennsylvania Railroad station | |||||||||||
 Plainsboro station site in August 2013. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro Township, New Jersey | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°19′58″N 74°36′12″W / 40.332790°N 74.603373°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Main Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Closed | May 29, 1962[1] | ||||||||||
| Electrified | December 8, 1932 (Main Line)[2] | ||||||||||
| Former services | |||||||||||
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Plainsboro is a defunct commuter railroad station in the Plainsboro Center neighborhood of Plainsboro Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Located south of the Plainsboro Road grade (later bridge) crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line, the station served local trains between Pennsylvania Station in New York City and Trenton. Trains at Plainsboro also served a service between Red Bank and Trenton. The next station to the east was Monmouth Junction while the next westbound station was Princeton Junction. Plainsboro station contained two side platforms.
One of two former stations in the township, Plainsboro station opened c. 1874. A second station existed at Schalks Crossing Road (County Route 683). This station, known as Schalks, closed c. 1914. The railroad built a new brick station depot c. 1919. Plainsboro station closed on May 29, 1962 with the departure of the final Red Bank–Trenton train.
Station layout and services
[edit]| P Platform level |
Side platform | |
| Track 4 | ← Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line towards Trenton (Princeton Junction) | |
| Track 3 | ||
| Track 2 | ||
| Track 1 | Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line toward New York (Monmouth Junction) → | |
| Side platform, station shelter[nb 1] | ||
At its peak, Plainsboro station had numerous facilities. The station contained a passenger depot in each direction, both built of brick. The westbound station was a 54-by-19-foot (16.5 m × 5.8 m) structure while the eastbound was a 43-by-11-foot (13.1 m × 3.4 m) building. The former eastbound passenger station, converted into a freight house, was a wooden 35-by-15-foot (10.7 m × 4.6 m) building. Plainsboro station contained two more freight houses, a 14 by 24 feet (4.3 m × 7.3 m) one westbound and a second one eastbound 10 by 20 feet (3.0 m × 6.1 m) in design. The station contained an oil house, bunk house, cattle pens, along with a stable and a shed for horses. There were also two 100,000 US gallons (380,000 L) steel water tanks, a 16 feet (4.9 m) sump pump, an 81-by-45-foot (25 m × 14 m) boiler house. There also was a coal pocket at Plainsboro station.[3]
History
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Details denote the end of service on May 29, 1962.
Bibliography
[edit]- New Jersey State Board of Taxes and Assessment (1922). Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Taxes and Assessment for the Year Ending June 30, 1922. Somerville, New Jersey: Press of the Unionist-Gazette Association.
References
[edit]- ^ Baer, Christopher T. (April 2015). "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1962" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. p. 14. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
- ^ "Electric Train Service Started by P.R.R. Today". The Daily Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. December 8, 1932. pp. 1, 11. Retrieved October 31, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ New Jersey State Board of Taxes and Assessment 1922, p. 200.
