Dunellen station

Dunellen
Dunellen station in July 2014.
General information
LocationSouth Washington Avenue and New Market Road, Dunellen, New Jersey
Coordinates40°35′27″N 74°27′47″W / 40.59083°N 74.46306°W / 40.59083; -74.46306
Owned byNew Jersey Transit
Line(s)Raritan Valley Line
Distance26.0 miles (41.8 km) from Jersey City[1]
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsNJ Transit Bus: 59, 65, 113, 114
Suburban Trails: Dunellen Local
Construction
AccessibleNo
Other information
Fare zone12
History
OpenedJanuary 1, 1840[2]
Rebuilt1868[3]
December 10, 1955[4]
Previous namesNew Market (1840–1868)[3]
Passengers
2012945 (average weekday)[5]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Bound Brook Raritan Valley Line Plainfield
Grant Avenue
Closed 1986
Former services
Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station
Bound Brook
toward Scranton
Main Line Plainfield
Middlesex
toward Somerville
Somerville – Jersey City
Local
Clinton Avenue
Location
Map

Dunellen is an NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Dunellen, New Jersey. It is the only Raritan Valley Line station in Middlesex County. There is a ticket office and small waiting area at this stop. A simple station, there are two tracks with two small side platforms. The station is located on a high embankment.

Trains stop serving the station at midnight and resume by 5 in the morning. Automatic ticket vending machines have been installed along with an automated voice telling commuters when their train will arrive.

  1. ^ NJ Transit (2005). NJ Transit Rail Operations: Physical Characteristics. pp. 117–119, 142b, 173–182.
  2. ^ "Original Route of New Jersey Central Railroad Followed Old Post Road Between Plainfield, Elizabethport, Historian Says". The Plainfield Courier-News. December 31, 1938. p. 7. Retrieved March 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ a b Bernhart 2004, p. 63.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference dunellencrossings68 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2012.