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The Fanwood station as viewed from the pedestrian overpass on a winter afternoon. |
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| Connections | NJT Bus: 113(S) Olympia Trails: Westfield Commuter Service |
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 895 (average weekday) 2.46% | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fanwood Station is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Fanwood, New Jersey. The building on the north side of the tracks (westbound platform) is a Victorian building and, like the north building at Westfield, is used by a non-profit organization. The address is Fanwood Station, 238 North Avenue, Fanwood, Union County, New Jersey.[2] The ticket office is in the station building on the south side of the tracks (eastbound platform). The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1980.[1]
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The Fanwood Station Complex consists of the main station building (1874), the shelter (1897) and the overpass (1946).[2] The station main building was built in 1874 in the popular Victorian Carpenter Gothic style.[2][3] The station was part of a new line from Westfield to Plainfield and named Fanwood after Miss Fanny Wood, the daughter of a railroad official.[2] Similar portmanteau names are present in the town of Elberon, named after local property magnate L. B. Brown.[4] The lands surrounding the station became known as Fanwood Park, and the Borough of Fanwood was created in 1895.[2] Several stations were erected in this style.[2] These include Matawan on the North Jersey Coast line (though it lost its gingerbread trim) and Red Bank (restored), and the now demolished/replaced/completely remodeled stations Branchport, Bound Brook, Perth Amboy and Asbury Park.[2]
The shelter was built 1897 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey (New Jersey Central) to the designs of an unknown architect in a similar style to the main building.[2] It was designed as a baggage facility and passenger waiting area for the Southside (non-main building) of the tracks.[2] and converted into a temporary commuter sheeted in 1965 when the station was sold to the Broough of Fanwood and converted for community use. The overpass, which bridged two sides of the tracks, was erected in 1946.[2][5]
The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1980.[1]
Fanwood station is located slightly more than 34.6 km (21.5 mi) from New York Penn Station, placing it in Zone 9 of the New Jersey Transit rail zone system. Other stations in Zone 9 include Summit, New Providence, Ridgewood, Westwood, Hillsdale, and Avenel.
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