Mount Tabor station

Mount Tabor
Mount Tabor station in September 2014 facing Morris Plains-bound. Station Road is visible to the right side.
Location Station Road near New Jersey Route 53
Mount Tabor, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°52′33″N 74°28′55″W / 40.87583°N 74.48194°W / 40.87583; -74.48194Coordinates: 40°52′33″N 74°28′55″W / 40.87583°N 74.48194°W / 40.87583; -74.48194
Owned by New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
  Morristown Line
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 2
Connections NJT Bus: 880
Construction
Parking Yes
Bicycle facilities Yes
Other information
Fare zone 16
History
Opened 1881
Rebuilt May 1, 1902[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 30 (average weekday)[2][3]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Hackettstown
Morristown Line
  Former services  
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
toward Buffalo
Main Line
toward Hoboken

Mount Tabor is a New Jersey Transit station in Denville, New Jersey along the Morristown Line just west of the small community of Mount Tabor in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. The station consists of one side platform and 48 parking spaces for commuters. One of these parking spaces is handicapped-accessible. The station sees limited service on a daily basis.

The first station at Mount Tabor was originally built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad on August 19, 1881 under the supervision of a man from Newark named John Scannell.[4]

Station layout

The station has two tracks with a low-level side platform on Track 1. Access from the platform to Track 2 is provided via a walkway over the tracks, though not all trains stop at this station.

Ground/
Platform level		 Street level Ticket machine and parking
Side platform, access to both tracks
Track 1 ← Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Denville)
Track 2 Morristown Line toward Hoboken or New York (Morris Plains) →

References

  1. ↑ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 753. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
  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. ↑ Mount Tabor Historical Society (2007). Images of America: Mount Tabor. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7385-5010-7.

Media related to Mount Tabor (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

The original Mount Tabor DL&W station in 1881.


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