Towaco station

Towaco
The Towaco station platform in September 2013, facing eastbound along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The shelter for buses can be seen to the right.
Coordinates 40°55′23″N 74°20′36″W / 40.9230°N 74.3434°W / 40.9230; -74.3434Coordinates: 40°55′23″N 74°20′36″W / 40.9230°N 74.3434°W / 40.9230; -74.3434
Owned by NJ Transit
Line(s)
  Montclair-Boonton Line
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1
Connections NJT Bus: 871
Lakeland: 46
(limited Lakeland service)
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 11[1]
History
Rebuilt 1910–1911[2], 2000[3]
Previous names Whitehall (–1905)[2]
Traffic
Passengers (2017) 80 (average weekday)[4][5]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Hackettstown
Montclair-Boonton Line
  Former services  
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Montville
toward Denville
Boonton Branch
toward Hoboken

Towaco is a train station on New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line in the Towaco section of Montville Township, New Jersey. The station is located on U.S. Route 202 and Whitehall Roads in Montville. The station has a single side platform on a single track, facing eastbound. There are also two parking lots with 220 spots for free use. There is also a 600-square-foot (56 m2) shelter on the platform for riders.

The station was first opened by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad as Whitehall. Renamed to Towaco in 1905,[6] a new depot was built in 1924 by the railroad with help from architect F.G. Neiss.[7] The depot replaced one built in the 1910s[2] and demolished in 1970. NJ Transit rebuilt the structure in 2000.[7]

Station layout

Ground/
Platform level		 Outbound/Inbound ← Montclair–Boonton Line PM rush hours toward Hackettstown (Boonton)
Montclair–Boonton Line AM rush hours toward Hoboken or New York (Lincoln Park) →
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Street level Ticket machine and parking

Bibliography

  • Florio, Patricia (2017). Images of America: Montville Township: Celebrating 150 Years. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781467126403.

References

  1. ↑ "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 766. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
  3. ↑ Florio 2017, p. 81.
  4. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  6. ↑ Yanosey, Robert J. (2007). Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color). 1:Hoboken to Dover. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 52–53, 80. ISBN 1-58248-214-4.
  7. 1 2 Pope, Clementina (September 12, 1999). "Towaco Train Station Work to Begin". The Daily Record. p. 17. Retrieved April 29, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

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