Brick Church station

Brick Church
Looking east toward downtown East Orange
Line(s)
  Gladstone Branch
  Morristown Line
Platforms 1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks 3
Connections NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, 94, and 97
Community Coach: 77
ONE Bus: 24
Other information
Fare zone 4
History
Opened November 19, 1836
Rebuilt 1923
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 2,041 (average weekday)[1][2]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Gladstone
Gladstone Branch
toward Hackettstown
Morristown Line
Former services
Preceding station   Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad   Following station
toward Buffalo
Main Line
toward Hoboken
Brick Church Station
Location Brick Church Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°45′56″N 74°13′10″W / 40.76556°N 74.21944°W / 40.76556; -74.21944Coordinates: 40°45′56″N 74°13′10″W / 40.76556°N 74.21944°W / 40.76556; -74.21944
Area 2 acres (0.8 ha)
Built 1921
Architect Nies, F.J.
Architectural style Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference # 84002636[3]
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984

Brick Church is a New Jersey Transit station in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morris and Essex Line. Service is available from this station east to Hoboken Terminal, New York Penn Station and west to Dover and Hackettstown.

There are two transit lines that service this station which are the Morris & Essex Gladstone and Morris & Essex Morristown. There are 103 trains that come to the station which includes 19 trains during peak hours. During the FY2012, the average weekday board were about 1,610. This stop was ranked #24 out of 148 commuter rail stations. At this location there are available commuter parking and bike racks for passenger use.[4]

The brick church itself, originally the Second Presbyterian Church of Orange, can be seen north of the station. The church building dates from 1878, and Brick Church station was probably established not long after judging by the architectural style of the original station building. The present station building was opened in 1923 when the track grade was raised above street level.[5]

Brick Church was the station stop for "the Oranges" made by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's through trains to Buffalo and the west. Its priority continues to this day under NJ Transit, Brick Church having more train service than either Orange or East Orange.

The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984,[6] listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[7]

Station layout

The eponymous church

The station has two low-level platforms serving all three tracks.

P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 3 ← Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Orange)
← Gladstone Branch toward Gladstone (Orange)
Track 1 ← Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (South Orange)
← Gladstone Branch toward Gladstone (South Orange)
Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch toward Hoboken or New York (East Orange) →
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 2 Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch toward Hoboken or New York (East Orange) →
G Street level Station building, ticket machines, parking

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  3. ↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  4. ↑ http://www.njfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Targeting-Transit-sample-station-area-profile.pdf
  5. ↑ Taber & Taber 1980, p. 8
  6. ↑ Monmouth County Listings, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed September 2, 2007.
  7. ↑ Brick Church New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey

References

  • Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.

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