Netherwood (NJT station)

Netherwood
Netherwood Station as seen facing the Newark-bound direction from Track 2.
Station statistics
Address	South Avenue and Belvedere Avenue Plainfield, New Jersey
Line(s)	Raritan Valley Line
Connections	NJT Bus: 113(S) and 822 Olympia Trails: Westfield Commuter Service
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Parking	Yes
Other information
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Fare zone	10[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	546 (average weekday)[2]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Plainfield toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Fanwood toward Hoboken
Netherwood Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Between North and South Aves., Plainfield, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°37′45″N 74°24′13″W / 40.62917°N 74.40361°W / 40.62917; -74.40361Coordinates: 40°37′45″N 74°24′13″W / 40.62917°N 74.40361°W / 40.62917; -74.40361
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1894 (1894)
Architectural style	Queen Anne, Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
Governing body	State
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002830[3]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

Netherwood is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is located along North Avenue at the intersection of Netherwood Avenue and along South Avenue at the intersection of Belvedere Avenue. The station has a ticket vending machine, and the station house itself is located off of South Avenue.

History

Netherwood Station was originally built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1894. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Downtown Plainfield Station), whereas they community previously had five; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue, and another station named Evona. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1984, along with the other active station downtown.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, New Jersey

References

External links

Media related to Netherwood (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• NJT rail station information page for Netherwood
• DepartureVision real time train information for Netherwood
• Raritan Valley Line schedule
• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Raritan Valley Line (Unofficial NJTransit Homepage)