Perth Amboy station

Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy station, April 2015.
Location Elm Street between Smith & Market Streets
Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
Owned by New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
  North Jersey Coast Line
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections NJT Bus: 48, 116, 813, 815, and 817
Construction
Parking Yes
Bicycle facilities Yes
Other information
Fare zone 12[1]
History
Rebuilt 1923[2]
Electrified Yes
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 874 (average weekday)[3]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Bay Head
North Jersey Coast Line
Former services
Central Railroad of New Jersey
TerminusElizabethport and Perth Amboy Branch
Barber
toward Elizabethport
Pennsylvania Railroad
TerminusPerth Amboy and Woodbridge Branch
Genasco
toward Rahway
New York and Long Branch Railroad
South Amboy Junction
Main LineTerminus
Perth Amboy Station
Perth Amboy station's eastbound entrance.
Location Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
Coordinates 40°30′33.35″N 74°16′25.68″W / 40.5092639°N 74.2738000°W / 40.5092639; -74.2738000Coordinates: 40°30′33.35″N 74°16′25.68″W / 40.5092639°N 74.2738000°W / 40.5092639; -74.2738000
Built 1923[2]
Architect A.E. Owen
Architectural style Renaissance
NRHP reference # 84002735[4][5]
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984

Perth Amboy is a station on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, located in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, 1½ miles south of Woodbridge and 2½ miles north of South Amboy. The station is located in a cut between Elm Street and Maple Street and between Smith Street and Market Street in downtown Perth Amboy, and has two low side platforms. A ticket office is located at street level. The platforms are below street level in the cut.

The station building was built in the 1920s to replace an older structure built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey that was moved to Lewis Street and currently serves as a private residence there.[2] It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[4][5][6]

Planned renovations

The station was refurbished in the 1990s.[2] On June 16, 2010, New Jersey Transit (NJT) announced a $1 million (2010 USD) deal with Stantec Consulting Services in Rochelle Park, New Jersey to study the addition of high-level platforms for handicap accessibility, per the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) The platform renovation will also include canopies, elevators to street-level and upgrades to communication systems.[7] New Jersey Transit in its 2015 budget allocated $9.6 million for the final design for a major renovation that would modernize it and make it compliant with the ADA.[8]

Station layout

Perth Amboy has two low-level asphalt side platforms.

G Street level Station building, crossover between platforms, parking
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 1 ← North Jersey Coast Line toward Long Branch or Bay Head (South Amboy)
Track 2 North Jersey Coast Line toward Hoboken or New York (Woodbridge) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

See also

References

  1. ↑ "North Jersey Coast Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Wang, Paul W.; Massopust, Katherine A. (2009). Perth Amboy (Then and Now). Charleston, SC: Arcadia. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-7385-6241-4.
  3. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. December 27, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  4. 1 2 National Park Service (2006-03-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  5. 1 2 "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Perth Amboy New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
  7. ↑ "NJ Transit Advances Perth Amboy Station Improvements" (Press release). June 16, 2010. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
  8. ↑ Epstein, Sue (July 18, 2014). "NJ Transit earmarks $9.6 million for rehabilitation of Perth Amboy train station". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
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