Watchung Avenue (NJT station)

Watchung Avenue

The Watchung Avenue station as a train enters the station

Station statistics

Address

580 Park Street
Montclair, New Jersey, 07042

Lines

Montclair-Boonton Line

Connections

NJT Bus: 28
DeCamp 66

Platforms

2 low-level side platforms

Tracks

Parking

95 permit spots

Bicycle facilities

No Bicycle racks

Other information

Opened

1873

Rebuilt

1904

Electrified

30 September 2002

Code

1739 (Erie Railroad)^[1]

Owned by

New Jersey Transit

Fare zone

Formerly

Park Street

Traffic

Passengers (2010)

698 (average weekday) 6.73%

Services

Preceding station	NJ Transit Rail	Following station
Upper Montclair toward Hackettstown	Montclair-Boonton Line	Walnut Street toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station
Preceding station	Erie Railroad	Following station
Montclair toward Pavonia Terminal	New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad	Upper Montclair toward Sterling Forest

Watchung Avenue Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location:	Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Area:	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built:	1873
Architectural style:	Renaissance
Governing body:	State
MPS:	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference#:	84002674^[2]
Added to NRHP:	June 22, 1984

Watchung Avenue is a New Jersey Transit station at the intersection of Watchung Avenue, Watchung Plaza, and Park Street in Montclair, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The Watchung Avenue station is on an elevated embankment between Watchung Plaza and Park Street. The outbound platform faces the plaza, while the inbound platform and the station house are on the Park Street side. The station house has a waiting room with a bathroom and a former post office and ticket booth. Service to and from this station is weekdays (Monday to Friday) only, with all service stopping at intermediate points. The station was featured in a scene from the movie Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen starring Lindsey Lohan and Megan Fox.^[3]^[4]

References

^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. http://www.jon-n-bevliles.net/RAILROAD/erie_docs/erie-losn16.html. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
^ Montclair-Boonton Line Schedule, New Jersey Transit, accessed June 6, 2008.
^ http://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TrainSchedulesFrom To-from train schedules, New Jersey Transit, accessed June 6, 2008.

External links

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