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40°42′41″N 74°33′19″W / 40.71139°N 74.55528°W
Basking Ridge | |||||||||||||
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 Basking Ridge station in September 2020. The station's former semaphore signal has been removed from the building's canopy over the platform. | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | Ridge Street and Depot Place, Basking Ridge, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Lakeland Bus Lines: 78 | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Accessible | No | ||||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||||
| Station code | 714 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 16 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | January 29, 1872[2] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1911[3] | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | January 6, 1931[4] | ||||||||||||
| Key dates | |||||||||||||
| April 4, 1911 | Station depot burns[5] | ||||||||||||
| July 1, 1981 | Station agency closed[6][7] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 79 (average weekday)[8][9] | ||||||||||||
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Basking Ridge is an NJ Transit station in Bernards Township, New Jersey along the Gladstone Branch of the Morris and Essex Lines.
- ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
- ^ Stitcher, Felecia (January 27, 1972). "100 Years Ago Saturday the Iron Horse Arrived". The Bernardsville News. p. 42. Retrieved October 12, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Annual Report of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company for the Year Ending December 31st, 1911 (Report). Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. 1911. p. 25. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- ^ "Bedecked Municipalities on P. & D. Branch Greet First Electric Train Run". The Plainfield Courier-News. January 7, 1931. pp. 1, 13. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Basking Ridge R.R. Station Burned". The Bernardsville News. April 7, 1911. p. 4. Retrieved July 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Town to Decide on Train Station". The Courier-News. Bridgewater, New Jersey. May 20, 1981. p. 17. Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Polakiewicz, David (December 8, 1983). "Township, NJ Transit Working on Lease for Railroad Station". The Bernardsville News. p. 16. Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ^ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
