Towaco station

Towaco
The Towaco station platform in September 2013, facing eastbound along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The shelter for buses can be seen to the right.
General information
Coordinates40°55′23″N 74°20′36″W / 40.9230°N 74.3434°W / 40.9230; -74.3434
Owned byNJ Transit
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
ConnectionsNJT Bus NJT Bus: 871
Commuter Bus Lakeland: 46
(limited Lakeland service)
Construction
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone11[1]
History
OpenedSeptember 12, 1870 (freight service)[2]
December 14, 1870 (passenger service)[3]
Rebuilt1910–1911,[4] 2000[5]
Previous namesWhitehall (–1905)[4]
Passengers
201780 (average weekday)[6][7]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Boonton Montclair-Boonton Line
limited service
Lincoln Park
Former services
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Montville
toward Dover
Boonton Branch Lincoln Park
toward Hoboken
Location
Map

Towaco is a station on NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line located between U.S. Route 202 and Whitehall Road in the eponymous neighborhood of Montville Township, Morris County, New Jersey. The station opened as Whitehall in 1870 along the Boonton Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and assumed its current name in 1905.

  1. ^ "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  2. ^ Arch, Brad (January 1982). "The Morris and Essex Railroad" (PDF). Journal of New Jersey Postal History Society. X (1): 4–8. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  3. ^ Lyon 1873, p. 55.
  4. ^ a b Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 766. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
  5. ^ Florio 2017, p. 81.
  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.