Finderne (NJT station)

Finderne or Manville-Finderne was a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The station, which once housed a small building between the tracks, had been without facilities for some time prior to its closure. The last train to service Finderne was the 4:18 PM train to Newark Penn Station on October 27, 2006. Effective with the schedule of October 29, 2006, train service to Finderne was terminated; New Jersey Transit recommended the Scoot Bus Shuttle as an alternative. The station was closed by simply telling engineers not to stop at the location. In its last years the station had very infrequent service, with only three trains stopping on weekdays and none on weekends. Train conductors have confirmed to the curious that there were in fact passengers who used the stop, mostly employees of a nearby industrial plant. The station was accessible by a stairway from the Finderne Avenue bridge, which connects Manville, New Jersey to the Finderne area of Bridgewater, New Jersey. The bridge goes over the Raritan River and the stairway is on the west side of the road on the north bank of the river.

History

The Finderne station was located along Finderne Avenue (Somerset County Route 533) in Finderne. The station contained only a platform and old station tracks.

The three stops were:

• 6:09 AM train from Newark Penn Station arriving at 6:55 AM in Finderne
• 3:45 PM train to Newark Penn Station
• 4:18 PM train to Newark Penn Station

An historical photo of the Finderne station can be seen in the Arcadia Publishing historical photo book "Somerset County in Postcards," by Alan A. Siegel, Somerset County Historical Society (ISBN 0-7385-0078-X). The photo is of a station house that no longer exists.

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations

References