Aberdeen-Matawan (NJT station)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coordinates: 40°25′12.70″N, 74°13′24.98″W

Aberdeen-Matawan

Station statistics

Address

Main Street & Atlantic Avenue
Matawan, New Jersey

Lines

North Jersey Coast Line

Connections

NJT Bus: 135

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Other information

Accessible

Owned by

New Jersey Transit

Fare zone

Traffic

Passengers (2005)

804,960 ▬ 0%

Services

Preceding station		New Jersey Transit		Following station
Hazlet toward Bay Head		North Jersey Coast Line		South Amboy toward Hoboken or New York Penn

Matawan Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Map of the United States
Location:	Matawan, New Jersey, USA
Architectural style(s):	Stick/Eastlake, Other
Added to NRHP:	1984
NRHP Reference#:	#84002756

Aberdeen-Matawan is a station on New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, located in Aberdeen Township and Matawan, New Jersey, United States. The station is 5 miles east of South Amboy and 2 miles west of Hazlet. This station, convenient to New Jersey State Route 35, is popular with commuters, and the busiest station on the line, between Bay Head and Rahway.

The station is located at grade on Atlantic Avenue, on the border of Aberdeen and Matawan, and has two high side platforms and two tracks. A ticket office is located on the New York bound platform.

All trains serve this station.

For many years, the station was known as just Matawan, as its stationhouse and main platform were in Matawan, and only an auxiliary platform and large extra parking area were in Aberdeen. In 1984, the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places.^[1] When the station was reconstructed and expanded in the 1990s, the new stationhouse and main platforms were built on the Aberdeen (eastern) side of Atlantic Avenue. New Jersey Transit thought of renaming the station to just Aberdeen, but Matawan officials protested, as much of the town's recognition factor was due to the heavy use of the station by central New Jersey residents. Thus, the joint Aberdeen-Matawan name was adopted.

The former Freehold Branch can still be traced in a southeastern parking lot.