Plainfield station

Plainfield
Location North Avenue Route 28, between
Gavett Place and Watchung Avenue
Plainfield, NJ 07060
Owned by NJ Transit
Line(s)
  Raritan Valley Line
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections NJT Bus: 59, 65, 66, 113, 114, 819, 822, and 986
(all buses except 986 on Watchung Avenue)
Construction
Bicycle facilities Yes; bike racks
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 11[1]
History
Opened 1839[2]
Rebuilt 1873, 1901[2]
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 893 (average weekday)[3]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward High Bridge
Raritan Valley Line
Former services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
Grant Avenue
toward Phillipsburg
Raritan Valley Line
until April 26, 1986
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Grant Avenue
toward Scranton
Main Line
toward Communipaw
Baltimore and Ohio
Main Line
toward Communipaw
Plainfield Station
Plainfield station in 1907
Location North Avenue Route 28, Plainfield, NJ 07060
Coordinates 40°37′6″N 74°25′15″W / 40.61833°N 74.42083°W / 40.61833; -74.42083Coordinates: 40°37′6″N 74°25′15″W / 40.61833°N 74.42083°W / 40.61833; -74.42083
Area 3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built 1902 (1902)
Architect Bradford L. Gilbert; Joseph Osgood
Architectural style Renaissance
MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference # 84002837[4]
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984

Plainfield is a NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. One of two train stations in Plainfield, this station serves the central part of the city. The ticket office and waiting area are in the south side station house (the eastbound platform). It was the westernmost station on the line with ADA accessibility, until Somerville's new high-level platforms were opened on December 7, 2010.[5]

History

Plainfield station, ca. 1910

Plainfield station was originally built by Bradford L. Gilbert and Joseph Osgood for the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1902. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Netherwood station), whereas the community previously had five; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue, and another station named Evona. It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and along with Netherwood is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[4][6][7] The station underwent a reconstruction project in 2010 and kept its listing.

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms.

P
Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 1 ← Raritan Valley Line toward Raritan or High Bridge (Dunellen)
Track 2 Raritan Valley Line toward Newark – Penn or New York (Netherwood) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
G Street level Station building, ticket machine, parking

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Raritan Valley Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Bernhart, Benjamin L. (2004). Historic Journeys By Rail: Central Railroad of New Jersey Stations, Structures & Marine Equipment. Outer Station Project. p. 61. ISBN 1891402072.
  3. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
  4. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  5. ↑ "Somerville Station: New High-Level Platforms Open Tuesday, December 7". Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. December 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  6. ↑ Plainfield New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
  7. ↑ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 7 January 2015.

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