East Orange station

East Orange is a New Jersey Transit station on the Morris and Essex line in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. This elevated station was built in 1923 for the Lackawanna and now has trains from the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch, including service to Hoboken Terminal and Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is next to the westbound lanes of Interstate 280 about five hundred yards west of the Garden State Parkway. The East Orange City Hall is north of the station.

East Orange
The East Orange station in April 2015, facing toward Brick Church.
Location	65 City Hall Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, and 94 Community Coach: 77
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	November 19, 1836[1]
Rebuilt	April 21, 1921–December 18, 1922[2]
Traffic
Passengers (2017)	455 (average weekday)[3][4]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Brick Church toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Newark Broad Street toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Brick Church toward Hackettstown Morristown Line
Former services Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Brick Church toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch until April 7, 1991 Grove Street toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Brick Church toward Hackettstown Morristown Line until April 7, 1991 Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Brick Church toward Buffalo Main Line Grove Street toward Hoboken
East Orange Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
East Orange station depot
Location in Essex, County, New Jersey Show map of Essex County, New Jersey East Orange station (New Jersey) Show map of New Jersey East Orange station (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates	40°45′40.8″N 74°12′39.5″W
Built	1921
Architect	F.W. Nies
Architectural style	Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002638[5]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984,[6] listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[7]

History

Station owner New Jersey Transit decided to perform work at East Orange station to improve accessibility for the handicapped and to repair eighty-year-old viaducts at the station.[8] At a cost of $22.9 million, repair work at East Orange, along with nearby stations Brick Church and South Orange, commenced in 2004.[9] East Orange received a mini-high level platform, the tracks surrounding the station were upgraded with concrete ties and the stairways leading to the platforms were replaced.[10]

Station layout

The station has two low-level platforms serving all three tracks.

P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Track 3	←      Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Brick Church) ←      Gladstone Branch toward Gladstone (Brick Church)
	Track 1	←      Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Brick Church) ←      Gladstone Branch toward Gladstone (Brick Church) ←      Morristown Line and      Gladstone Branch toward Hoboken or New York (Newark Broad Street) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Track 2	←      Morristown Line and      Gladstone Branch toward Hoboken or New York (Newark Broad Street) →
G	Street level	Station building, ticket machines, parking

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations

Bibliography

• Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Retrieved April 5, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References

1. Douglass 1912, p. 339.
2. "D., L. & W. Opens New Elevated Line". The Paterson Evening News. December 18, 1922. p. 1. Retrieved March 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
4. "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
5. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
6. Monmouth County Listings, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed September 2, 2007.
7. East Orange New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
8. M&E station improvement and viaduct rehabilitation NJ Transit official site Retrieved August 6, 2007
9. NJ Transit approves $22.9 million in viaduct repairs Progressive Railroading Retrieved August 6, 2007
10. NJ Transit breaks ground on three-station rehab project Progressive Railroading Retrieved August 7, 2007

External links

Media related to East Orange (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons