Convent Station (NJ Transit)

Convent Station is a NJ Transit rail station on the Morristown Line. It is located on the grounds of Saint Elizabeth University in Convent Station, New Jersey.^[7]

Convent Station
Convent Station stationhouse
General information
Location	Convent Road at Old Turnpike Road Morris Township, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°46′44″N 74°26′36″W
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJ Transit Bus: 873, 878
Construction
Parking	580 spaces, 9 accessible spaces
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	No
Other information
Station code	428 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1]
Fare zone	12
History
Opened	1867[2]
Rebuilt	1913–1914[3]
Electrified	December 18, 1930[4]
Passengers
2017	1,035 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Morristown toward Hackettstown Morristown Line Madison toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Morristown toward Buffalo Main Line Madison toward Hoboken
Location

The station first opened in 1867.^[2] A small wooden structure was built in 1876 and called Convent Station.^[8] The existing station house, built in 1913–1914, has two side platforms, with the station house on the eastbound platform. A ticket office and waiting room is open weekdays. On the westbound track a brick waiting house stands. A former freight station is on the eastbound side. The main driveway into the college is located at a level crossing at the east end of the platform.

Nearby are several office complexes, including the headquarters of Honeywell to the north and Pfizer at Giralda Farms to the east. The Traction Line Recreation Trail, formerly a line of the Morris County Traction Company, runs along the northeastern side of the line.

Station layout

The station has two tracks, each with a low-level side platform.

See also

• List of NJ Transit railroad stations
• Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey)

References

1. List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
2. Housing Legislation of 1966: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency - United States Senate Eighty-Ninth Congress Second Session on Proposed Housing Legislation for 1966 (Report). 89th United States Congress. 1967. p. 1198. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
3. Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 98. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.
4. "Lackawanna Electric Train Gets Ovations". The Paterson Morning Call. December 19, 1930. p. 34. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
6. Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
7. "New Jersey Transit". www.njtransit.com.
8. Scheireik, Susan (March 14, 1993). "If You're Thinking of Living in: Convent Station". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2019. A small wooden structure was built and named Convent Station in 1876. The sisters built a road to it, now Convent Road, and paid the salary of a station attendant.

External links

• Media related to Convent Station (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons