Finderne station

Finderne or Manville-Finderne was a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in the Finderne section of Bridgewater Township, New Jersey. Located along Finderne Avenue (Somerset County Route 533), the station contained only a platform and old station tracks.

Finderne
The former site of the Finderne station prior to sunset in January 2010.
Location	Finderne Avenue (County Route 533), Finderne, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	None
Tracks	2
Other information
Fare zone	15[1]
History
Opened	1851[2]
Closed	1854 (first time)[2] 1972 (depot demolished)[2] October 29, 2006 (second time)
Rebuilt	1868[2]
Previous names	Dun's Landing (1851–1854)[2] Manville–Finderne Manville
Former services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Somerville toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Bridgewater toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station Somerville toward Phillipsburg Main Line Bound Brook toward Jersey City Somerville Terminus Somerville – Jersey City Local Calco toward Jersey City

The station, which once housed a small building between the tracks, had been without facilities for some time prior to its closure. The last train to serve Finderne was the 4:18 PM train to Newark Penn Station on October 27, 2006. In its last years the station had only three trains stopping on weekdays (one morning train from Newark Penn Station and two afternoon trains to Newark Penn Station) and none on weekends.

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations

References

1. Raritan Valley Line Timetables (2001 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit. 2001.
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.