Bound Brook station

Bound Brook is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Bound Brook, New Jersey. The station building on the north side of the tracks is now a restaurant; the other station building on the south side is now privately owned. A pedestrian tunnel connects the south and north sides of the tracks.

Bound Brook
Bound Brook station in April 2015, looking east along the south platform
Location	East Main Street (CR 527-533), Bound Brook, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Raritan Valley Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Somerset County Transportation: DASH
Construction
Structure type	Canopy
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Racks
Disabled access	No
Other information
Fare zone	14
History
Opened	January 1, 1840[1]
Rebuilt	1859–1860, 1872[2], July 1912–August 10, 1913[3][4]
Previous names	Yellow Tavern (1840–1842)[2]
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	622 (average weekday)[5]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Bridgewater toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Dunellen toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station SEPTA Following station Belle Mead Closed 1981 toward Reading Terminal West Trenton Line Newark Penn Station Terminus Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station Manville–Finderne toward Phillipsburg Main Line Dunellen toward Jersey City Calco toward Somerville Somerville – Jersey City Local Middlesex toward Jersey City Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Belle Mead toward Jenkintown New York Branch Terminus Preceding station Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Following station West Trenton toward Philadelphia Philadelphia – Jersey City Local Plainfield toward Jersey City Wayne Junction toward Chicago Main Line Until 1926 Manhattan Transfer toward New York Preceding station Lehigh Valley Railroad Following station Flemington Junction toward Buffalo Main Line Roselle Park toward New York or Jersey City South Somerville toward Buffalo New Market toward New York or Jersey City
Bound Brook Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	E. Main St., Bound Brook, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°33′39″N 74°31′51″W
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1913 (1913)
Architect	William I. Houghton
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002787[6]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line, the railroad's main freight line into the New York City area – built and formerly owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad until merged into Conrail – is a few yards south of the south platform and is used by around 25 freight trains a day.

The station at 350 East Main Street was opened on August 10, 1913 as a replacement station.[3][4] This was a part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Elevation Project from Elizabeth to Somerville (grade crossing removal). The station on the north side of the tracks replaced the original station (circa 1847-8) that was located on the south side of the tracks as built by the railroad then known as The Elizabethtown & Somerville Railroad.[7]

Bound Brook station was listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[8]

Station layout

The station has two low-level side platforms serving three tracks. The southernmost track and platform are not served by passenger trains.

P Platform level
	Side platform
	Track 1	←      Raritan Valley Line toward Raritan or High Bridge (Bridgewater)
	Track 2	←      Raritan Valley Line toward Newark Penn Station (Dunellen) →
	Side platform
	Track 4	← No service
	Side platform, not in use
G	Street level	Station building, parking, buses

Bibliography

• Bianculli, Anthony J. (2001). Trains and Technology: Track and Structures. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 9780874138023.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References

1. "Original Route of New Jersey Central Railroad Followed Old Post Road Between Plainfield, Elizabethport, Historian Says". The Plainfield Courier-News. December 31, 1938. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Bernhart, Benjamin L. (2004). Historic Journeys By Rail: Central Railroad of New Jersey Stations, Structures & Marine Equipment. Outer Station Project. p. 64. ISBN 1891402072.
3. "R. R. Improvements at Bound Brook and Somerville". The Daily Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. July 27, 1912. p. 8. Retrieved July 28, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Bound Brook's New Station in Use". The Plainfield Courier-News. August 11, 1913. p. 16. Retrieved July 28, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
6. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
7. Central Railroad of New Jersey
8. Bound Brook New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey

External links

• Media related to Bound Brook (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line
• Station from Google Maps Street View