Metuchen (NJT station)

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Metuchen

Station renovation plaque, northbound platform waiting room.
Station statistics
Address Main Street & Woodbridge Avenue
Metuchen, NJ
Coordinates 40°32′26.70″N 74°21′37.22″W / 40.5407500°N 74.3603389°W / 40.5407500; -74.3603389Coordinates: 40°32′26.70″N 74°21′37.22″W / 40.5407500°N 74.3603389°W / 40.5407500; -74.3603389
Line(s)
  Northeast Corridor Line
Connections NJT Bus: 810, 813, and 819
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 4
Other information
Opened 1888
Rebuilt 1979
Accessible
Owned by New Jersey Transit
Fare zone 11
Traffic
Passengers (2012)3,810 (average weekday)[1]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Trenton
 Northeast Corridor Line
    Former services    
Pennsylvania Railroad
toward Chicago
 Main Line
Menlo Park

Metuchen Station is a New Jersey Transit station on the Northeast Corridor Line, in Metuchen, New Jersey. It is on Main Street between Pennsylvania and Woodbridge Avenues; the platforms are on an overpass over Main Street. The New York City-bound platform and station office are accessible from Woodbridge Avenue, while the Trenton-bound platform is accessible from Pennsylvania Avenue. There is a station office but no station agents and passengers must use a ticket machine. There is a newsstand in the waiting room of the northbound platform that operates on weekday mornings during rush hour. A private concierge service operated between 2001–2003, but is now closed. There is, however, a taxi stand on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the station. The station was built in 1888 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, which turned it over to Amtrak in 1971,[2] and it was significantly renovated in 1979.

References

  1. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS". New Jersey Transit. December 27, 2012. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2012. 
  2. ↑ May 1, 1971 Amtrak Timetabiles

External links

The platforms at Metuchen Station
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