Teterboro station

Teterboro, formerly known as Williams Avenue,[5] is a NJ Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line. The station is in Hasbrouck Heights, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and is located on Williams Avenue near Route 17 and Route 46, near Teterboro Airport.

Teterboro
Teterboro station in August 2008
Coordinates	40.8648°N 74.0628°W / 40.8648; -74.0628
Owned by	NJ Transit
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Other information
Station code	767 (Erie Railroad)[1]
Fare zone	4[2]
History
Opened	May 29, 1904[3]
Rebuilt	1967[4]
Previous names	Williams Avenue[5]
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	96 (average weekday)[6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Essex Street toward Spring Valley Pascack Valley Line Wood-Ridge toward Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Hackensack toward Haverstraw New Jersey and New York Railroad Hasbrouck Heights toward Jersey City

Teterboro is served by weekday trains only, and with the exception for one early morning train from Hoboken. There is currently no weekend or holiday service at this station, with the exception of one late night outbound local train.[2]

Station layout

The station has one track and one low-level side platform four cars long to its east. Although it was formerly named Williams Avenue, that street dead-ends on the line on the opposite side of the platform, which can only be accessed by Green Street that runs alongside it. Since there is no way to reach the station from its west side, customers from there often illegally crossed the tracks from the Williams Avenue dead-end to reach the platform. In February 2013, New Jersey Transit built a barbed-wire fence on this dead-end, forcing riders from the west side to loop around the station through Route 46 and Route 17, neither of which have sidewalks, to reach it.[7][8]

The platform has a wide painted yellow line below track level and a silver highway guard rail (with gaps to enter it) separating it from the 27-space parking lot that is in between it and Green Street. The southern end of the platform in the tiny area south of the parking lot's end has a bike rack for two behind a single wooden bench. There is a tiny silver shelter that has another bench next to the station's only ticket vending machine.

Ground/ Platform level	Street level	Ticket machines, parking
	Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Track 1	←      Pascack Valley Line weekdays toward Spring Valley (Essex Street) ←      Pascack Valley Line weekdays toward Hoboken (Wood-Ridge) →

References

1. "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
2. "Pascack Valley Line Timetables" (PDF) (November 7, 2010 ed.). New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
3. "Miscellaneous Locals". The Evening Record and Bergen County Herald. Hackensack, New Jersey. May 28, 1904. p. 3. Retrieved February 15, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Stations of Erie to Be Merged". The Bergen Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. May 24, 1967. p. 19. Retrieved February 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
5. Yanosey, Robert J. (2006). Erie Railroad Facilities (In Color). 1. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 100–101. ISBN 1-58248-183-0.
6. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
7. "Dude Where's My Train Station?". Systemic Failure. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
8. "Great Moments in NJ Transit: It costs what to build a fence?". Second Ave. Sagas. Retrieved 27 April 2016.

External links

• Station from Google Maps Street View