South Orange (NJT station)

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Coordinates: 40°44′45″N 74°15′38″W / 40.74583, -74.26056

South Orange

Station statistics

Lines

Gladstone Branch

Morristown Line

Connections

NJT Bus: 92 and 107
ONE Bus: 31

Platforms

1 side platform and 1 island platform

Tracks

Other information

Accessible

Owned by

New Jersey Transit

Fare zone

Traffic

Passengers (2005)

755,560 ▬ 0%

Services

Preceding station		New Jersey Transit		Following station
Maplewood toward Gladstone		Gladstone Branch		Mountain Station toward Hoboken or New York Penn
Maplewood toward Hackettstown		Morristown Line

South Orange is a New Jersey Transit station in South Orange, New Jersey along the Morris and Essex (formerly Erie Lackawanna) rail line. It is located in the business district of South Orange, near its town hall. From here one may travel eastward along South Orange Avenue to Seton Hall University.

[edit] Service

South Orange station is served by both Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch trains of the Morris and Essex Lines on New Jersey Transit. During peak hours (6.31am-8.41am), trains to Hoboken and New York stop every 10-20 minutes,^[1] whilst during off-peak hours trains to each terminus come at intervals of around every half-hour.^[1] The same is true for outbound travel; trains can depart to either Dover, Hackettstown, or Gladstone.^[1]

[edit] ADA accessibility and viaduct improvements

Station owner New Jersey Transit decided to perform work at South Orange station to improve accessibility for the handicapped and to repair eighty year old viaducts at the station.^[2] At a cost of $22.9m, repair work at East Orange, along with nearby stations Brick Church and East Orange, commenced in 2004.^[3] Not only did South Orange receive a mini-high level platform as a result of the repairs, but the tracks surrounding the station were upgraded to have concrete ties and the stairways leading towards the platforms were replaced.^[4]