Newark Broad Street station

Newark Broad Street
Location Lackawanna Avenue and Broad Street, Newark, NJ
Coordinates 40°44′51″N 74°10′19″W / 40.74750°N 74.17194°W / 40.74750; -74.17194
Owned by NJ Transit
Line(s) Hoboken Division
Platforms Commuter rail: 1 island, 1 side
Light rail: 1 island
Tracks 3 (Commuter Rail)
2 (Light rail)
Connections NJT Bus: 11, 13, 27, 28, 29, 30, 41, 72, 76, 78, and 108
Construction
Platform levels 2
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 2 (commuter rail only)[1]
History
Opened 19 November 1836
Rebuilt 1903, 2008
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 2,996 (average weekday)[2][3]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Gladstone
Gladstone Branch
Terminus
toward Hackettstown
Montclair-Boonton Line
Terminus
toward Hackettstown
Morristown Line
Terminus
Newark Light Rail
Broad Street – Newark PennTerminus
One-way operation
Former services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Bay Street
Montclair Branch
Terminus
toward Bay Street
Montclair Branch
until 1991
toward Bay Street
Montclair Branch
until 1984
toward Hoboken
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
toward Buffalo
Main Line
Terminus
toward Gladstone
Gladstone Branch
toward Montclair
Montclair Branch
toward Hoboken
Newark Broad Street Station
Location Broad St and University Ave., Newark, NJ 07102
Coordinates 40°44′50″N 74°10′20″W / 40.74722°N 74.17222°W / 40.74722; -74.17222Coordinates: 40°44′50″N 74°10′20″W / 40.74722°N 74.17222°W / 40.74722; -74.17222
Area 1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built 1901
Architect Frank J. Nies
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Renaissance
MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference # 84002662[4]
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984

Newark Broad Street is a NJ Transit commuter rail and light rail station at 25 University Avenue in Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1901-03 on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line from Hoboken to Denville, Scranton and Buffalo, the station's historic architecture includes an elegant clock tower and a brick and stone façade on the station's main building.

History

Newark Broad Street opened on 19 November 1836 at the east end of the opening segment of the Morris and Essex Railroad to Orange; for the first couple of decades trains east of Newark ran over the New Jersey Rail Road to Jersey City. The Newark Drawbridge connecting to the station and crossing the Passaic River to the east was opened in 1903. A number of western expansions were built, and Hoboken Terminal, the current eastern end of the line, opened in 1907. In 1945, the Morris and Essex Railroad officially merged into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (its identity had been largely lost years before). DL&W merged with the Erie Railroad in 1960 to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, which was absorbed by Conrail in 1976; NJ Transit has operated all passenger service since 1983.

The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984[5] and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[6]

Renovation

From 2004 to 2008 the station was renovated. The station changed from having 2 outside low platforms, with walkways across one track to the middle track, to having 2 high platforms, one of them an island platform, to facilitate cross-platform transfers. The historic westbound shelter was removed in the project and new westbound waiting areas were built.

Station layout and services

Broad Street Station is currently served by the Montclair-Boonton Line and both branches of the Morris and Essex Lines –– the Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch.

This station is also the northern terminus of the Newark Light Rail Broad Street Extension line from Newark Penn Station. Service on this line opened on July 17, 2006, although light rail service was unavailable from March through July 2008 due to a partial collapse of the former Westinghouse factory adjacent to the station during demolition.

P
Platform level		 Track 3 ← Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (East Orange)
← Gladstone Branch toward Gladstone (East Orange)
← Montclair–Boonton Line toward Bay Street, Montclair State University or Hackettstown (Bloomfield)
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
Track 1 ← Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (East Orange)
← Gladstone Branch toward Gladstone (East Orange)
Morristown, Gladstone, Montclair–Boonton Lines toward Hoboken (Terminus) or New York (Secaucus Junction) →
Track 2 Morristown, Gladstone, Montclair–Boonton Lines toward Hoboken (Terminus) or New York (Secaucus Junction) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
G
Ground level		 Street level Station building, ticket machines, light rail platform
Light Rail Newark Light Rail toward Newark – Penn Station (Washington Park) →
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
Light Rail Newark Light Rail toward Newark – Penn Station (Washington Park) →

References

  1. ↑ "Morris and Essex Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  2. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  4. ↑ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  5. ↑ Essex County Listings, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed July 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ Newark Broad Street Station New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey

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