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Little Falls station building in February 2011 facing eastbound towards Great Notch. |
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| Address | Union Avenue, Little Falls, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Connections | NJT Bus: 11, 191, 704, and 705 (on Main Street) |
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 revenue track and 1 siding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 194 parking spaces | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Lockers available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1915[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Not electrified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Code | 1765 (Erie Railroad)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2010) | 188 7.98% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Little Falls Station is the second of two station maintained by New Jersey Transit in Little Falls, New Jersey. The station, on the Montclair-Boonton Line is the first to receive limited revenue service due to the end of electrification at the site of the former Great Notch station. Little Falls station, located at Union Avenue (Passaic County Route 646) in downtown has one side platform with the 1915 station depot, built of brick on the side. The station contains one track for revenue service, and a passing siding for trains. The station is the eighth fare zone, costing $8.75 for a one-way ticket to New York Pennsylvania Station and a dollar less to Hoboken Terminal. The station has 194 parking spaces, 134 on Railroad Avenue at Montclair Avenue and sixty more along Montclair Avenue. A ticket machine is available. The station is not accessible for handicapped persons. Anyone wishing to receive train service for handicapped must go to Montclair State University station or Wayne Route 23 Transit Center across the Passaic River in Wayne.
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Trains on the northbound service this station after Montclair State University Station on Clove Road.[3] As of the November 7, 2010, five inbound (to New York/Hoboken) trains stop at Little Falls on weekday mornings, while ten outbound trains (from New York/Hoboken) stop on weekday afternoons/evenings. There is no weekend service to Little Falls, as all service terminates at Bay Street station in Montclair, New Jersey. However, during holidays, three of extra trains heading to Lake Hopatcong stop at Little Falls along with three heading to Hoboken Terminal. Trains continuing northbound next stop at Wayne Route 23 Transit Center in Wayne. Bus service is provided by New Jersey Transit with four lines meeting at Little Falls station by the No. 11, No. 191, No. 704 and No. 705.
The station is located along the Montclair-Boonton Line, a former alignment of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway, run by the Erie Railroad. The line ran from the Erie's Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City to Sterling Forest station on the New Jersey / New York state line. The station was the second of three built in Little Falls, with Great Notch station in the Great Notch district and the Singac station.[4] The current railroad depot was built by the Erie in 1915, a one-story brick structure. The line was cut back to Wanaque-Midvale station in 1935 and the cut entirely in 1966 after being rechristened as the Boonton Line, a mix of the New York and Greenwood Lake and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Boonton Branch. In 1983, seven years after the death of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, New Jersey Transit took over railroad operations and maintenance of the building. Formerly the third station in Little Falls, it has become the only one in downtown Little Falls, after Great Notch was closed by New Jersey Transit in January 2010.[5]