Netcong (NJT station)

Netcong
Netcong Station in December 2014 from the station platform. U.S. Route 46 is visible to the right.
Coordinates	40°53′51.5″N 74°42′26.5″W / 40.897639°N 74.707361°W / 40.897639; -74.707361Coordinates: 40°53′51.5″N 74°42′26.5″W / 40.897639°N 74.707361°W / 40.897639; -74.707361
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Morristown Line   Montclair-Boonton Line
Platforms	1-low-level platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Lakeland: 80
Construction
Parking	Free and no overnight parking
Other information
Fare zone	19[1]
History
Opened	1853[2]
Rebuilt	1901–June 14, 1903[3]
Electrified	No
Previous names	Netcong-Stanhope
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	145 (average weekday)[4]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Mount Olive toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line Lake Hopatcong toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Morristown Line Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Waterloo toward Portland or Phillipsburg Old Main Line Lake Hopatcong Terminus Andover toward Branchville Sussex Branch Hoboken Terminus

Netcong Station is a New Jersey Transit station in Netcong, New Jersey. Located on U.S. Route 46 at Main Street in downtown Netcong, the small, 1-low level side platform station service passengers for the Morristown Line and the Montclair-Boonton Line. These lines provide service to Hoboken or to New York City via Midtown Direct on the Morristown Line at Dover and Montclair-Boonton at Montclair State University station. Midtown Direct service can also be transferred at Newark Broad Street Station in Newark, New Jersey There is one track and one platform on the north side, adjacent to the station. New Jersey Transit maintains a substantial train servicing yard east of the Netcong station at Port Morris in Roxbury Township. Port Morris Yard is proposed to return as the junction of the Montclair-Boonton and Morristown Lines for the Lackawanna Cut-Off line to Scranton. Transfers would be provided at Lake Hopatcong station in Landing.^[5]

Service to Netcong, once known as South Stanhope, was begun in 1853 by the Morris & Essex Railroad. A 1.5-story depot was constructed by the railroad out of wood and located on the westbound tracks. The current Netcong station was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's main line after construction of the Stanhope Cut-Off from 1901–1903 as the main station to Netcong and nearby Stanhope.^[6] The brick design of the station was built with bricks from nearby Port Murray, New Jersey.^[7]

The station served as the junction of the Sussex Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western as well, serving towns through Sussex County including Branchville, Newton and Lafayette. Passenger railroad service on the Sussex Branch ended in October 1966, when the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, the successor to the Lackawanna, cut service on many passenger branches. In 1979, the line was torn up and handed over to the New Jersey State Park Department. Prior to 1994, New Jersey Transit's service on the then-Boonton Line terminated at Netcong. However, in late 1994, service was extended along the Norfolk Southern owned tracks to Mount Olive and Hackettstown, which became the permanent western terminus of the line.^[8]

See also

• Port Morris, New Jersey
• Sussex Railroad

References

Bibliography

• Rutan, Dave (2013). Remember The Sussex Branch of the Lackawanna Railroad. Sussex County, New Jersey: Dave Rutan. ISBN 9781304169310. 

External links

Media related to Netcong (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• NJT rail station information page for Netcong
• DepartureVision real time train information for Netcong
  • Morris and Essex Line schedule (Morristown Line & Gladstone Branch)
  • Montclair-Boonton Line schedule
• Station from Google Maps Street View