Perth Amboy station

Perth Amboy is a station on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, located in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, 1½ miles south of Woodbridge and 2½ miles north of South Amboy. The station is located in a cut between Elm Street and Maple Street and between Smith Street and Market Street in downtown Perth Amboy, and has two low side platforms. A ticket office is located at street level. The platforms are below street level in the cut.

Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy station, April 2015.
Location	Elm Street between Smith & Market Streets Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 48, 116, 813, 815, and 817
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	No
Other information
Fare zone	12[1]
History
Rebuilt	1923[2]
Electrified	12 kV 25 Hz until 2002 25 kV AC since then
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	874 (average weekday)[3]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station South Amboy toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line Woodbridge toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station Terminus Elizabethport and Perth Amboy Branch Barber toward Elizabethport Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Terminus Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Branch Genasco toward Rahway Preceding station New York and Long Branch Railroad Following station South Amboy Junction toward Bay Head Junction Main Line Terminus
Perth Amboy Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Perth Amboy station's eastbound entrance.
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Location	Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
Coordinates	40°30′33.35″N 74°16′25.68″W
Built	1923[2]
Architect	A.E. Owen
Architectural style	Renaissance
NRHP reference No.	84002735[4][5]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

History

The station building was built in the 1920s to replace an older structure built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey that was moved to Lewis Street and currently serves as a private residence there.[2] It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[4][5][6]

Station renovations

The station was refurbished in the 1990s.[2] On June 16, 2010, New Jersey Transit (NJT) announced a $1 million (2010 USD) deal with Stantec Consulting Services in Rochelle Park, New Jersey to study the addition of high-level platforms for handicap accessibility, per the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) The platform renovation will also include canopies, elevators to street-level and upgrades to communication systems.[7] New Jersey Transit in its 2015 budget allocated $9.6 million for the final design for a major renovation that would modernize it and make it compliant with the ADA.[8]

Station layout

Perth Amboy has two low-level asphalt side platforms.

G	Street level	Station building, crossover between platforms, parking
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Track 1	←      North Jersey Coast Line toward Long Branch or Bay Head (South Amboy)
	Track 2	←      North Jersey Coast Line toward Hoboken or New York (Woodbridge) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, New Jersey
• Perth Amboy Ferry Slip

References

1. "North Jersey Coast Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
2. Wang, Paul W.; Massopust, Katherine A. (2009). Perth Amboy (Then and Now). Charleston, SC: Arcadia. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-7385-6241-4.
3. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. December 27, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
4. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 15, 2006.
5. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
6. Perth Amboy New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
7. "NJ Transit Advances Perth Amboy Station Improvements" (Press release). June 16, 2010. Retrieved June 16, 2010.
8. Epstein, Sue (July 18, 2014). "NJ Transit earmarks $9.6 million for rehabilitation of Perth Amboy train station". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2014-07-21.

External links

• NJT North Jersey Coast Line (World-NYC-Subway.org)
• Perth Amboy New Jersey Transit station (The Subway Nut)
• Smith Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station House from Google Maps Street View