South Orange station

South Orange
South Orange station at the southwest corner of South Orange Avenue and Sloan Street.
General information
Location17 Sloan Street, South Orange, New Jersey
Owned byNew Jersey Transit
Platforms1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks3
ConnectionsNJT Bus NJT Bus: 31, 92, and 107
Construction
AccessibleYes (mini-platform)
Other information
Fare zone5
History
OpenedSeptember 17, 1837 (preliminary trip)[1]
September 28, 1837 (regular service)[2][3]
RebuiltFebruary 1, 1916[4]
ElectrifiedSeptember 22, 1930[5]
Passengers
20174,131 (average weekday)[6][7]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Maplewood
toward Gladstone
Gladstone Branch
weekdays
Mountain Station
Maplewood Morristown Line
Former services
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Maplewood
toward Buffalo
Main Line Mountain Station
toward Hoboken
South Orange Station
The station house as seen from Sloan Street
Location17 Sloan Street,
South Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates40°44′45″N 74°15′39″W / 40.74583°N 74.26083°W / 40.74583; -74.26083
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1916
ArchitectFrank J. Nies
Architectural styleRenaissance
MPSOperating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.84002669[8]
Added to NRHPJune 22, 1984
Location
Map

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.

  1. ^ "Morris and Essex is Seventy-Nine Years Old". The Madison Eagle. June 16, 1916. p. 10. Retrieved April 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. p. 339. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  4. ^ 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.
  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. Open access icon
  6. ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  7. ^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  8. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.