Roselle Park station

Roselle Park
The Roselle Park station from the platform. The station depot is in the parking lot below.
Location 24 West Lincoln Avenue at Chestnut Street,
Roselle Park, NJ, 07204
Coordinates 40°40′02″N 74°16′00″W / 40.6672°N 74.2666°W / 40.6672; -74.2666Coordinates: 40°40′02″N 74°16′00″W / 40.6672°N 74.2666°W / 40.6672; -74.2666
Owned by Norfolk Southern Railway
Line(s)
  Raritan Valley Line
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Connections NJT Bus: 94 and 113(S)
Other information
Fare zone 6
History
Rebuilt April 30, 1967
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 845 (average weekday)[1]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward High Bridge
Raritan Valley Line
Former lines
Preceding station   Lehigh Valley Railroad   Following station
toward Buffalo
Main Line
toward Jersey City
Aldene
toward Buffalo

Roselle Park is a New Jersey Transit railroad station in Roselle Park, New Jersey. Located on the Conrail Lehigh Line which is owned by Conrail Shared Assets Operations on West Lincoln Avenue between Chestnut Street and Locust Street, it is served by Raritan Valley Line trains that travel between Newark Penn Station and Raritan. There is also limited service to High Bridge and New York Penn Station and one weekday morning train to Hoboken Terminal.

History

The station is located at milepost 16.0 on the Conrail Lehigh Line. This is part of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad main line, built by LV subsidiary Newark & Roselle Railway. The second station to stand on the property, it was built in 1967 during the construction of the Aldene Plan. The Aldene Plan was a joint project between the railroads, New Jersey Department of Transportation, and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which elevated trackage above ground level to eliminate grade crossings and rerouted Central Railroad of New Jersey trains (one of NJ Transit's predecessor railroads) to Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey rather than the CNJ's aging Jersey City terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey.[2]

When bankruptcy struck, the Central Railroad of New Jersey and Lehigh Valley Railroad were forced to fold into the Consolidated Rail Corporation on April 1, 1976. On that date, the New Jersey Department of Transportation took over commuter rail operations statewide. In 1981 the State of New Jersey created New Jersey Transit to oversee all commuter operations, rail and bus, in the state. Since then, NJTransit has continued to operate and improve services on the Raritan Valley Line.

In Spring 1997, negotiations began for the joint purchase of Conrail by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway. The Surface Transportation Board officially approved the acquisition and restructuring of Conrail on July 23, 1998. The approved restructuring plan transformed Conrail into a private, non-common carrier switching and terminal railroad that operates on behalf of its owners, using rolling stock and locomotives supplied by its owners. Property was divided using a system of railroad heritage, bringing ownership of the route and Roselle Park station to Norfolk Southern Railway. The purchase, often referred to as the "Conrail split" by railroaders, was made final on April 1, 1999.

Currently, the station is served by 53 weekday and 36 weekend New Jersey Transit trains.

Station layout and service

The station has one high-level island platform. Eastbound and westbound trains are capable of operating on either track as per NORAC Rule 261.

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

Freight operations

The station has a gauntlet track (a slightly shifted-over track) on the track 2 side that allows freight trains to pass the high level platform safely. Currently, freight trains past the station are operated by Conrail, CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway. The route has become a critical artery in transcontinental transportation, particularly for intermodal, retail and petrochemical traffic. Tonnage over this route reaches as far west as Chicago and Los Angeles, south to Atlanta and Jacksonville, and east to Vermont and Maine. Currently 30-40 freights operating past the station depending on the day of the week.

References

  1. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
  2. ↑ "New Jersey Transit Raritan Line". world.nycsubway.org. Retrieved 2013-07-13.

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