Blairstown (DL&W station)

Blairstown
The station house, which is now privately owned
Location	Hope Road (CR 521) Blairstown Township, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°58′06″N 74°57′14″W / 40.968200°N 74.953783°WCoordinates: 40°58′06″N 74°57′14″W / 40.968200°N 74.953783°W
Line(s)	Montclair-Boonton Line [1]   Morristown Line [1]
Construction
Parking	243 spaces (proposed)[2]
History
Opened	1911[3]
Closed	1970
Rebuilt	proposed
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Delaware Water Gap[2] toward Scranton   Lackawanna Cut-Off (proposed)   Andover[2] toward New York Penn Station Preceding station   Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad   Following station Delaware Water Gap toward Buffalo Main Line Johnsonburg toward Hoboken

Blairstown was one of the three original stations on the Lackawanna Cut-Off rail line in northwestern New Jersey. Built by contractor Hyde, McFarlan & Burke, the station opened in 1911. Most passenger trains, such as the Lackawanna Limited and, later, the Phoebe Snow stopped at Blairstown, which also sold commuter tickets. It was the only station on the Cut-Off to remain open until passenger service ended in January 1970. After 1970, the building housed a radio station, WHCY-FM, until the 1990s. The station building is currently privately owned.

Blairstown is slated to become a station stop once again if a proposal by New Jersey Transit to restore rail service to Scranton, Pennsylvania, comes to fruition.

References

1. "New Jersey – Pennsylvania Lackawanna Cut-Off Passenger Rail Service Restoration Project Environmental Assessment" (PDF). U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, and New Jersey Transit in cooperation with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. June 2008. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
2. "Northwest New Jersey - Northeast Pennsylvania Rail Corridor Lackawanna Cutoff" (pdf). New Jersey Transit. November 2005. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
3. Townsend Jr., Thomas Taber; Thomas Taber Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century - 1899-1960. Williamsport, Pennsylvania: Lycoming Printing Company. p. 727. ISBN 0960339825.