Newark Broad Street station

Newark Broad Street
Location	Lackawanna Avenue and Broad Street
Coordinates	40°44′51″N 74°10′19″W / 40.74750°N 74.17194°W
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Gladstone Branch   Montclair-Boonton Line   Morristown Line   Broad Street – Newark Penn
Platforms	Commuter rail: 1 island, 1 side Light rail: 1 island
Tracks	3 (Commuter Rail) 2 (Light rail)
Connections	NJT Bus: 11, 13, 27, 28, 29, 39, 41, 43, 72, 76, 78, and 108
Construction
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	2 (commuter rail only)[1]
History
Opened	19 November 1836
Rebuilt	1903, 2008
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	2,442 (average weekday)[2]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station East Orange toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Secaucus Junction toward New York Penn Station Hoboken Terminus Watsessing Avenue toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line Secaucus Junction toward New York Penn Station Hoboken Terminus East Orange toward Hackettstown Morristown Line Secaucus Junction toward New York Penn Station Hoboken Terminus Newark Light Rail Washington Park toward Newark Penn Station Broad Street – Newark Penn Terminus Riverfront Stadium One-way operation Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Roseville Avenue toward Buffalo Main Line Hoboken Terminus Roseville Avenue toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Roseville Avenue toward Montclair Montclair Branch Harrison toward Hoboken
Newark Broad Street Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Broad and University Sts., Newark, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°44′50″N 74°10′20″W / 40.74722°N 74.17222°WCoordinates: 40°44′50″N 74°10′20″W / 40.74722°N 74.17222°W
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1901
Architect	Frank J. Nies
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002662[3]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

Newark Broad Street is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail and light rail station at 25 University Avenue in Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1901-03 on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line from Hoboken to Denville, Scranton and Buffalo, the station's historic architecture includes an elegant clock tower and a brick and stone façade on the station's main building.

History

Newark Broad Street opened on 19 November 1836 at the east end of the opening segment of the Morris and Essex Railroad to Orange; for the first couple of decades trains east of Newark ran over the New Jersey Rail Road to Jersey City. The Newark Drawbridge connecting to the station and crossing the Passaic River to the east was opened in 1903. A number of western expansions were built, and Hoboken Terminal, the current eastern end of the line, opened in 1907. In 1945, the Morris and Essex Railroad officially merged into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (its identity had been largely lost years before). DL&W merged with the Erie Railroad in 1960 to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, which was absorbed by Conrail in 1976; New Jersey Transit has operated all passenger service since 1983.

The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984^[4] and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.^[5]

Renovation

From 2004 to 2008 the station was renovated. The station changed from having 2 outside low platforms, with walkways across one track to the middle track, to having 2 high platforms, one of them an island platform, to facilitate cross-platform transfers. The historic westbound shelter was removed in the project and new westbound waiting areas were built.

Services

Rail

Broad Street Station is currently served by the Montclair-Boonton Line and both branches of the Morris and Essex Lines (Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch).

Light Rail

This station is the northern terminus of the Newark Light Rail Broad Street Extension line from Newark Penn Station. Service on this line opened on July 17, 2006. Light Rail trains operate from about 5 a.m. to midnight, daily.^[6] Light rail service was unavailable from March 2008 until July 2008 due to a partial collapse of the former Westinghouse factory adjacent to the station during demolition. Demolition was completed, and service resumed, in July 2008.

Gallery

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  Station entrance on University Avenue

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  Commuter rail platforms

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  Light rail station

References

1. "Morris and Essex Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
2. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS". New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
3. Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
4. Monmouth County Listings, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed September 2, 2007.
5. Newark Broad Street Station New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
6. http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/bus/T0007.pdf Newark Light Rail schedule

External links

Media related to Newark Broad Street Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Newark N.J. DL&W, by John C. Dahl (Great Railroad Stations Index - RSHS/Train Web)