Plainfield station

Plainfield is a NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. One of two train stations in Plainfield, this station serves the central part of the city. The ticket office and waiting area are in the south side station house (the eastbound platform). It was the westernmost station on the line with ADA accessibility, until Somerville's new high-level platforms were opened on December 7, 2010.[5]

Plainfield
Location	North Avenue & Gavett Place, Plainfield, New Jersey
Owned by	NJ Transit
Line(s)	Raritan Valley Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJ Transit Bus: 59, 65, 66, 113, 114, 819, 822, 986
Construction
Bicycle facilities	Yes; bike racks
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	11[1]
History
Opened	January 1, 1839[2]
Rebuilt	1873, 1901
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	893 (average weekday)[3]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Dunellen toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Netherwood toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Grant Avenue Closed 1986 toward High Bridge
Former services Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station Dunellen toward Phillipsburg Main Line Elizabeth toward Jersey City Roselle–Roselle Park toward Jersey City Grant Avenue toward Somerville Somerville – Jersey City Local Netherwood toward Jersey City Preceding station Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Following station Wayne Junction toward Chicago Main Line Elizabeth toward Jersey City Bound Brook toward Philadelphia Philadelphia – Jersey City Local
Plainfield Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Plainfield station in 1907
Location	North Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07060
Coordinates	40°37′6″N 74°25′15″W
Area	3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built	1902 (1902)
Architect	Bradford L. Gilbert; Joseph Osgood
Architectural style	Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002837[4]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

History

Plainfield station was originally built by Bradford L. Gilbert and Joseph Osgood for the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1902. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Netherwood station), whereas the community previously had five; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue, and another station named Evona. It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and along with Netherwood is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[4][6][7] The station underwent a reconstruction project in 2010 and kept its listing.

Station layout

Plainfield station, ca. 1910

The station has two high-level side platforms.

P Platform layout	Side platform
	Track 1	←      Raritan Valley Line toward Raritan or High Bridge (Dunellen)
	Track 2	←      Raritan Valley Line toward Newark Penn Station (Netherwood) →
	Side platform
G	Street level	Station building, parking, buses

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, New Jersey

References

1. "Raritan Valley Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
2. Wyckoff, Jane Bower (April 21, 1949). "Development of Jersey Central Spurred by Plainfield Enthusiasts". The Plainfield Courier-News. p. 17. Retrieved July 7, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
4. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
5. "Somerville Station: New High-Level Platforms Open Tuesday, December 7". Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. December 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
6. Plainfield New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
7. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 7 January 2015.

External links

Media related to Plainfield (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line including Plainfield Station
• Raritan Valley Line (Unofficial NJTransit Homepage)
• Watchung Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Park Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View