Silver Lake (NLR station)

Silver Lake
The Silver Lake station as seen from the inbound platform.
Location	208 Heckel Street Belleville, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°46′49″N 74°10′49″W / 40.7803°N 74.1804°WCoordinates: 40°46′49″N 74°10′49″W / 40.7803°N 74.1804°W
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Grove Street – Newark Penn
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 27, 90
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	2002
Electrified	750 V (DC) overhead lines
Services
Preceding station   Newark Light Rail   Following station Grove Street Terminus Grove Street – Newark Penn Branch Brook Park toward Newark Penn Station Preceding station   Erie Railroad   Following station Forest Hill Terminus Orange Branch Bloomfield Avenue toward West Orange

Silver Lake Station is a surface station in Belleville, New Jersey on the City Subway Line of the Newark Light Rail system, and the southernmost one on the line outside of the city of Newark. It is located at 208 Heckel Street (a dead end street), intersects with Franklin Street, and lies alongside trackage owned by Norfolk Southern. The station was built in 2002 on the site of a former station owned by the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway, a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad.

Transfers

• New Jersey Transit buses: 27, 90

External links

• NJT Newark Light Rail station information page for Silver Lake
• Newark Light Rail schedule
• Franklin Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Belmont Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View