Roselle Park station

Roselle Park is a New Jersey Transit railroad station in Roselle Park, New Jersey. Located on the Conrail Lehigh Line which is owned by Conrail Shared Assets Operations on West Lincoln Avenue between Chestnut Street and Locust Street, it is served by Raritan Valley Line trains that travel between Newark Penn Station and Raritan. There is also limited service between High Bridge and New York Penn Station and one weekday morning train to Hoboken Terminal.

Roselle Park
The Roselle Park station from the platform. The station depot is in the parking lot below.
LocationWest Lincoln Avenue & Donald Place, Roselle Park, New Jersey
Coordinates40.6672°N 74.2666°W / 40.6672; -74.2666
Owned byNorfolk Southern Railway
Line(s)Lehigh Line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsNJ Transit Bus: 94, 113
Other information
Fare zone6
History
RebuiltApril 30, 1967
Traffic
Passengers (2012)845 (average weekday)[1]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Cranford
toward High Bridge
 Raritan Valley Line Union
toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former lines
Preceding station Lehigh Valley Railroad Following station
Bound Brook
toward Buffalo
 Main Line Townley
toward New York or Jersey City
Aldene
toward Buffalo
For former Central Railroad of New Jersey station closed in 1978, see Roselle–Roselle Park station.

History

The station is located at milepost 16.0 on the Conrail Lehigh Line. This is part of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad main line, built by LV subsidiary Newark & Roselle Railway. The second station to stand on the property, it was built in 1967 during the construction of the Aldene Plan. The Aldene Plan was a joint project between the railroads, New Jersey Department of Transportation, and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which elevated trackage above ground level to eliminate grade crossings and rerouted Central Railroad of New Jersey trains (one of NJ Transit's predecessor railroads) from its aging Jersey City terminal to Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey.[2]

When bankruptcy struck, the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Railroad were forced to fold into the Consolidated Rail Corporation on April 1, 1976. On that date, the New Jersey Department of Transportation took over commuter rail operations statewide. In 1981 the State of New Jersey created New Jersey Transit to oversee all commuter operations, rail and bus, in the state. Since then, NJ Transit has continued to operate and improve services on the Raritan Valley Line.

In Spring 1997, negotiations began for the joint purchase of Conrail by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway. The Surface Transportation Board officially approved the acquisition and restructuring of Conrail on July 23, 1998. The approved restructuring plan transformed Conrail into a private, non-common carrier switching and terminal railroad that operates on behalf of its owners, using rolling stock and locomotives supplied by its owners. Property was divided using a system of railroad heritage, bringing ownership of the route and Roselle Park station to Norfolk Southern Railway. The purchase, often referred to as the "Conrail split" by railroaders, was made final on April 1, 1999.

Station layout and service

The station has one high-level island platform.

P
Platform level		 Track 1 ←      Raritan Valley Line toward Raritan or High Bridge (Cranford)
←      Raritan Valley Line toward Newark Penn Station (Union) →
Island platform
Track 2 ←      Raritan Valley Line toward Newark Penn Station (Union) →
G Street level Station building, parking, buses

Freight operations

The station has a gauntlet track (a slightly shifted-over track) on the track 2 side that allows freight trains to pass the high level platform safely. Currently, freight trains past the station are operated by Conrail, CSX Transportation, and Norfolk Southern Railway. The route has become a critical artery in transcontinental transportation, particularly for intermodal, retail and petrochemical traffic. Tonnage over this route reaches as far west as Chicago and Los Angeles, south to Atlanta and Jacksonville, and east to Vermont and Maine. Currently 30-40 freights pass the station depending on the day of the week.

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References
  1. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
  2. "New Jersey Transit Raritan Line". world.nycsubway.org. Retrieved 2013-07-13.

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