Mount Olive (NJT station)

Mount Olive

The Mount Olive station facing to the east and Netcong station. There is no signage denoting the station.
Station statistics
Address Waterloo Valley Road, Mount Olive, New Jersey
Lines
  Morristown Line
  Montclair-Boonton Line
Platforms 1 low-level side platform
Tracks 1
Parking 23 parking spaces
Other information
Opened 1854
Rebuilt 1994
Electrified No
Accessible
Owned by New Jersey Transit (station)
Norfolk Southern (trackage)
Fare zone 19[1]
Formerly Waterloo
Traffic
Passengers (2010) 36 (average weekday)  25%
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
Terminus
 Montclair-Boonton Line
Morristown Line
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
toward Portland or Phillipsburg
 Old Main Line

Mount Olive Station is a New Jersey Transit station in Mount Olive, New Jersey, located in the International Trade Center. The station, located on the side of Waterloo Village Road, services trains for both the Montclair-Boonton Line and the Morristown Line along trackage owned by Norfolk Southern. The line is not electrified from Hackettstown to Dover, where passengers can transfer to an electric Morristown Line train via Summit or a diesel Montclair-Boonton train via Wayne and Montclair. Trains along both lines head to Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey or New York Pennsylvania Station at 34th Street in New York City, although Montclair-Boonton trains require a transfer at Montclair State University Station at Little Falls for electrified service to New York.

Originally, trains along both lines terminated at Netcong Station in Netcong. In 1994, stations were constructed along Norfolk Southern's Washington Secondary (to Washington) at Mount Olive and Hackettstown, extending the line into Warren County and providing rail service to the International Trade Center (ITC) along with tourist attraction, Waterloo Village. Service took effect on November 5, 1994 from Netcong to Hackettstown.[2] The Washington Secondary was the original alignment of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Main Line via Washington and Portland, Pennsylvania.[3] Near Mount Olive station was once the Waterloo station, named after local Waterloo, New Jersey. Waterloo station was first built in 1854[4] and remained in service until being replaced by a crude shelter in the 1920s. In 1946, this shelter burned down and as a result, was the only regular stop that did not have a structure to service passengers.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables" (May 23, 2010 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. pp. 1–4. http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0030.pdf. Retrieved September 9, 2010. 
  2. ^ Sanderson, Bill (November 6, 1994). "People Back Home Know Best". The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey: The Record of Bergen County). 
  3. ^ Yanosey, Robert J. (2007). Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color). Volume 2: Dover to Scranton. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc.. 
  4. ^ Wright, Kevin W. (2000). Newton and the Iron Horse: A History of the Sussex Railroad. Accessed online: 3 December 2007.
  5. ^ Taber III, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend (1981). Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Nineteenth Century. Volume 3. Muncy, Pennsylvania: Thomas T. Taber III. ISBN 9780960339846. 

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