Rowe Street (NJT station)

Rowe Street

The abandoned Rowe Street station facing eastbound towards Belwood Park in April 2014.
Location Rowe Street at dead-end in Bloomfield, New Jersey
Owned by Norfolk Southern
Line(s)
Platforms 2 ground-level
Tracks 2
Construction
Platform levels 1
History
Opened 1955[1]
Closed September 20, 2002[2]
Previous names Conrail, New Jersey Transit
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Hackettstown
Montclair-Boonton Line
Preceding station   Erie Railroad   Following station
Belwood Park
New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad
Walnut Street-Bloomfield
toward Sterling Forest

The Rowe Street Station is an abandoned train station in the town of Bloomfield, New Jersey. The station was a former stop on the Boonton Line, which runs from Hoboken Terminal to Hackettstown, reaching Rowe Street in Bloomfield. Rowe Street station was known before 1955 as Orchard Street station. The platforms lie in the block between the two streets. The rename has been linked to the elimination of the nearby Bloomfield Walnut Street station two years earlier when the Garden State Parkway was constructed through the site of that station. Rowe Street was a two platform, two track station, with a one-story brick station house.[1]

Service was discontinued to Rowe Street Station (along with Benson Street in Glen Ridge and Arlington in Kearny) in 2002 when the Montclair Connection was opened.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Yanosey, Robert J. (2006). Erie Railroad Facilities (In Color) 1. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. p. 69. ISBN 1-58248-183-0.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Rail Shuttle Buses To Transport Commuters Affected By Station Closures". Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit. August 27, 2002. Retrieved 24 November 2009.

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Coordinates: 40°46′11″N 74°08′24″W / 40.7698°N 74.1401°W