Watchung Avenue station

Watchung Avenue (known as Park Street until April 1, 1919) is a New Jersey Transit station at the intersection of Watchung Avenue, Watchung Plaza, and Park Street in Montclair, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The Watchung Avenue station is on an elevated embankment between Watchung Plaza and Park Street. The outbound platform faces the plaza, while the inbound platform and the station house are on the Park Street side. The station house has a waiting room with a bathroom and a former post office and ticket booth. Service to and from this station is weekdays (Monday to Friday) only, with all service stopping at intermediate points.^[10]

Watchung Ave.
Watchung Avenue station as a train enters the station
General information
Location	396 Park Street Montclair, New Jersey 07042
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 low-level side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 28, 101
Construction
Parking	95 permit spots
Bicycle facilities	No bicycle racks
Other information
Station code	1739 (Erie Railroad)[1]
Fare zone	5
History
Opened	January 1, 1873[2][3][4]
Rebuilt	March 19, 1901[5]–1904
Electrified	September 30, 2002
Previous names	Park Street (January 1, 1873–March 31, 1919[6])
Passengers
2017	802 (average weekday)[7][8]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Upper Montclair toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line weekdays Walnut Street toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Upper Montclair toward Sterling Forest New York and Greenwood Lake Railway Montclair toward Jersey City
Watchung Avenue Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Watchung Avenue station depot in December 2014.
Location	Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Coordinates	40°49′46.56″N 74°12′25.38″W
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1873
Architectural style	Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002674[9]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Location

Station layout

The station's low-level side platforms are not wheelchair accessible.

References

1. "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
2. Catlin 1873, p. 33.
3. Whittemore 1894, p. 47.
4. Baxter & Adams 1999, p. 147.
5. Ziobro, Paul A. (April 8, 2004). "Rehab Project Slated for Watchung Station". The Montclair Times. p. A9. Retrieved January 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Watchung is Back Again". The New York Sun. March 31, 1919. p. 9. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
7. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
8. Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
9. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
10. "Montclair-Boonton Line" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2015.

Bibliography

• Baxter, Raymond J.; Adams, Arthur G. (1999). Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand. Fordham, New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823219544.
• Catlin, George L. (1873). Homes on the Montclair Railway, for New York Business Men. A Description of the Country Adjacent to the Montclair Railway, Between Jersey City and Greenwood Lake. New York, New York: Montclair Railway Company.
• Whittemore, Henry (1894). History of Montclair Township, State of New Jersey: Including the History of Families who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Prosperity. New York, New York: The Suburban Publishing Company. Retrieved February 6, 2020.

External links

• Media related to Watchung Avenue (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons