Elizabeth (NJT station)

Elizabeth Station is a New Jersey Transit station 15.4 miles southwest of New York on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines in Elizabeth, New Jersey. It is between Broad Street and West Grand Street on an embankment and a viaduct. This station is often called Broad Street Elizabeth to distinguish it from North Elizabeth station. A number of bus lines have stops near this station.

At the station the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad (today's Northeast Corridor) crossed over the tracks of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ); both railroads had stations there and passengers could transfer between them. The CNJ right-of-way in Elizabeth is now abandoned, and passenger trains which serve the former CNJ mainline (New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line service) bypass Elizabeth via the Aldene Connection on their way to Newark Penn Station. The CNJ line station suffered from a freight train wreck on November 4, 1972 when a boxcar derailed and pulled several other cars into the canopy. Although the buildings and freight cars were damaged, there were no injuries.^[1]

The proposed Union County Light Rail, which would have connected midtown Elizabeth with Newark Airport, would have had its western terminus at this station. The station for this line would have been referred to as Midtown Station to distinguish from the other stations in Elizabeth on this line.

References

1. ^ "Wreck at Elizabeth, NJ". http://jcrhs.org/wreck.html. Retrieved 2009-03-26. 

External links

• NJT rail station information page for Elizabeth
• DepartureVision real time train information for Elizabeth
  • NJT Northeast Corridor Line schedule
  • North Jersey Coast Line schedule

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Elizabeth_(NJT_station) Elizabeth (NJT station)] at Wikimedia Commons

• Broad Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Grand Street entrance from Google Maps Street View