Rahway (NJT station)

Rahway Station is a New Jersey Transit train station in Rahway, New Jersey with service on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines. It is in the downtown part of the city on an embankment completed in 1913 and trestles over Milton Avenue and Irving and Cherry Streets. The present station was built by New Jersey Transit at a cost of $16 million and opened in early 1999. It replaced a passenger station built by the Penn Central and the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1974, which was also an Amtrak stop for a few years.^[2] The City of Rahway completed a $600,000 public plaza in front of the station in 2001.

Rahway is just northeast of the Perth Amboy Junction, where the Northeast Corridor and the North Jersey Coast lines split at Union Tower, so Rahway is one of several transfer stations along the NJ Transit rail system. The station has an island platform for the Trenton and Long Branch-bound side of the station. The New York-bound platform is a side platform more typical of the Northeast Corridor.

Amtrak served Rahway for a year or two until Metropark station opened.

Rahway is the home to the global research and development headquarters of Merck Research Laboratories; many employees commute to work using this station. North Rahway station was at Scott Avenue, near the Merck facility, but that station was closed and demolished in 1993.

References

External links

• NJT rail station information page for Rahway
• DepartureVision real time train information for Rahway
  • NJT Northeast Corridor Line schedule
  • North Jersey Coast Line schedule
• Irving Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Milton Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View