NJ Transit rail station
South Orange station at the southwest corner of South Orange Avenue and Sloan Street.
Location 17 Sloan Street, South Orange, New Jersey Owned by New Jersey Transit Platforms 1 side platform and 1 island platform Tracks 3 Connections NJT Bus : 31 , 92 , and 107 Accessible Yes (mini-platform) Fare zone 5 Opened September 17, 1837 (preliminary trip)[ 1] September 28, 1837 (regular service)[ 2] [ 3] Rebuilt February 1, 1916[ 4] Electrified September 22, 1930[ 5] 2017 4,131 (average weekday)[ 6] [ 7]
South Orange Station
The station house as seen from Sloan Street
Location 17 Sloan Street,South Orange, New Jersey Coordinates 40°44′45″N 74°15′39″W / 40.74583°N 74.26083°W / 40.74583; -74.26083 Area 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) Built 1916 Architect Frank J. Nies Architectural style Renaissance MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR NRHP reference No. 84002669 [ 8] Added to NRHP June 22, 1984
South Orange is a New Jersey Transit station in South Orange, New Jersey along the Morris and Essex (formerly Erie Lackawanna) rail line. It is located in the business district of South Orange, near its town hall. It is one of two train stations in the township of South Orange, Mountain Station being the other near the township border. South Orange station was built by the Lackawanna Railroad in 1916.
^ "Morris and Essex is Seventy-Nine Years Old" . The Madison Eagle . June 16, 1916. p. 10. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Walker, Herbert T. (1902). "Early History of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and it's Locomotives - Part 2: The Morris and Essex Railroad" . Railroad Gazette . 34 : 409. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
^ Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29 . Cleveland, Ohio : Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. p. 339. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century . Vol. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 88. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5 .
^ "Edison Pilots First Electric Train Over Orange-Hoboken Route" . The Passaic Daily News . September 22, 1930. p. 5. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF) . New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013 .
^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?" . Hoboken Patch . Retrieved July 18, 2018 .
^ "National Register Information System" . National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . March 13, 2009.