East Orange (NJT station)

East Orange
The East Orange station in April 2015, facing toward Brick Church.
Location	65 City Hall Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Gladstone Branch   Morristown Line
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, and 94 Community Coach: 77
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
East Orange Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
East Orange station depot.
Location in Essex, County, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°45′40.8″N 74°12′39.5″W / 40.761333°N 74.210972°W / 40.761333; -74.210972Coordinates: 40°45′40.8″N 74°12′39.5″W / 40.761333°N 74.210972°W / 40.761333; -74.210972
Built	1921
Architectural style	Other, Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
Governing body	State
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002638[1]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
History
Opened	November 19, 1836
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	282 (average weekday)[2]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Brick Church toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Newark Broad Street toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Brick Church toward Hackettstown Morristown Line Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Brick Church toward Buffalo Main Line Grove Street toward Hoboken

East Orange is a New Jersey Transit station on the Morris and Essex line in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. This elevated station was built in 1923 for the Lackawanna and now has trains from the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch, including service to Hoboken Terminal and Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is next to the westbound lanes of Interstate 280 about five hundred yards west of the Garden State Parkway. The East Orange City Hall is north of the station.

ADA accessibility and viaduct improvements

Station owner New Jersey Transit decided to perform work at East Orange station to improve accessibility for the handicapped and to repair eighty-year-old viaducts at the station.^[3] At a cost of $22.9m, repair work at East Orange, along with nearby stations Brick Church and South Orange, commenced in 2004.^[4] East Orange received a mini-high level platform, the tracks surrounding the station were upgraded with concrete ties and the stairways leading to the platforms were replaced.^[5]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to East Orange (NJT station).

• NJT rail station information page for East Orange
• DepartureVision real time train information for East Orange
• Morris and Essex Line schedule (Morristown Line & Gladstone Branch)