Mount Arlington station

Mount Arlington (also known as the Howard Boulevard Park and Ride) is a commuter railroad station for New Jersey Transit. Located in the borough of Mount Arlington, Morris County, New Jersey, United States, the station is located next to interchange 30 on Interstate 80. The station serves as a park-and-ride for commuters to catch trains for Hoboken Terminal and New York Penn Station. Trains use the Montclair-Boonton Line and Morristown Line to serve locales between Hackettstown and the eastern terminals. Lakeland Bus Lines also services Mount Arlington station. The station is handicapped accessible as part of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The station features two side platforms and two tracks with elevators.

Mount Arlington
The Mount Arlington station in March 2017.
Location	Howard Boulevard (CR 615) at Interstate 80, Mount Arlington, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.8967°N 74.6328°W / 40.8967; -74.6328
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Lakeland: 80
Construction
Parking	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	19
History
Opened	January 16, 1854 (first time) January 21, 2008[1] (second time)
Closed	November 8, 1942[2][3]
Previous names	Drakesville (January 16, 1854–July 1, 1891)[4]
Traffic
Passengers (2017)	110 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Lake Hopatcong toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line Dover toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Morristown Line
Former services Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Lake Hopatcong toward Buffalo Main Line Dover toward Hoboken Wharton toward Hoboken

Mt Arlington station

Railroad history in Mount Arlington began on January 16, 1854, with an extension of the Morris and Essex Railroad from Dover to Hackettstown. The station was established 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of the current station under the name of Drakesville. The station was renamed on July 1, 1891 from Drakesville to Mount Arlington.[4] A new station was opened later that year.[7] Passenger service ended at Mount Arlington on November 8, 1942 and service was merged with nearby Lake Hopatcong station in Landing.

The current station at Mount Arlington began construction on June 12, 2006 with a groundbreaking ceremony headlined by Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (R–NJ). This new station would join a park and ride already built for buses at Howard Boulevard (Morris County Route 615).[8] Despite a slated 2007 opening,[8] the station opened to the public on January 21, 2008.[1]

History

Mount Arlington was the site of a former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad station, that replaced the old Drakesville station in modern-day Ledgewood that opened on January 16, 1854.[9][10] That station burned on February 20, 1867. The railroad closed Drakesville station in 1891 when they built the new station at Mount Arlington, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the east.[11] The Mount Arlington station itself closed on November 8, 1942.[2][3]

Station layout

Mount Arlington has two high-level side platforms.

P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Track 1	←      Morristown Line and      Montclair-Boonton Line limited service toward Hackettstown (Lake Hopatcong)
	Track 2	←      Morristown Line and      Montclair-Boonton Line limited service toward Hoboken or New York (Dover) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
G	Street level	Station building, ticket machines, parking

Bibliography

• New Jersey Comptroller of the Treasury (1856). Annual Statements of the Railroad and Canal Companies of the State of New Jersey. Trenton, New Jersey: Office of "True American". Retrieved April 7, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References

1. Saha, Paula (January 21, 2008). "NJ Transit Station in Mount Arlington Offers Choice to Commuters". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
2. "Lackawanna Railroad Timetables" (PDF). New York, New York: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. August 1, 1942. p. 14. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
3. "Lackawanna Railroad Timetables" (PDF). New York, New York: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. November 8, 1942. p. 14. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
4. "Over the State". The Camden Daily Courier. June 20, 1891. p. 1. Retrieved April 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
6. "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
7. "Railroad Briefs". The Paterson Sunday News. December 6, 1891. p. 1. Retrieved April 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
8. Jennings, Rob (June 13, 2006). "Construction Starts on New Train Station in Mount Arlington". The Daily Record. Morristown, New Jersey. pp. A9, A12. Retrieved April 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
9. Davis, J.M. "Letter to the New York Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society" (PDF). The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. p. 8. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
10. New Jersey Comptroller of the Treasury 1856, p. 31.
11. Taber & Taber 1981, p. 736

External links

Media related to Mount Arlington (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Official station information page
• Project planning page
• View from Interstate 80 (Google Maps)