Rahway (NJT station)

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**Rahway**

Station Statistics
City	Rahway
County	Union
Platforms	2
Tracks	5
Other
Operated by	NJT
Accessible
Zone	8

Rahway is a New Jersey Transit train station located in Rahway, New Jersey, providing service on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines. It is located in the downtown part of the city on an embankment and a viaduct over Irving and Cherry streets. The station was heavily renovated in the late 1990s

This is the last station jointly serving both the Northeast Corridor and the North Jersey Coast lines and is not far from the Perth Amboy Junction where the lines split. Because of this, the station is configured with an island transfer-platform for the Trenton and Long Branch-bound side of the station. The New York-bound platform is a side platform more typical of the Northeast Corridor.

Amtrak served this station until the opening of the Metropark station.

Rahway is the site of a major Merck Research Laboratories site; many employees come to work using this station. There had formerly been a North Rahway station located adjacent to the Merck facility, but the station was closed and demolished in the late 1980s.