Far Hills | |||||||||||||
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 Far Hills station in September 2020. | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | 57 Route 202 (at junction with CR 512) Far Hills, New Jersey 07931 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Lakeland: 78 | ||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||||
| Station code | 719 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western) [1] | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 17 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | October 10, 1890[2][3] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | June 2–December 20, 1914[4][5] | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | January 6, 1931[6] | ||||||||||||
| Key dates | |||||||||||||
| July 1, 1981 | Station agency closed[7] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 113 (average weekday)[8][9] | ||||||||||||
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Far Hills Station | |||||||||||||
 The 1914 station depot of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad at Far Hills. | |||||||||||||
| Location | Far Hills, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°41′8″N 74°38′3″W / 40.68556°N 74.63417°W | ||||||||||||
| Area | 0.8 acres (0.3 ha) | ||||||||||||
| Built | 1914 | ||||||||||||
| Architect | Simpson, L.R.[11] | ||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Renaissance | ||||||||||||
| MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 84002789[10] | ||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 | ||||||||||||
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Far Hills is a NJ Transit station in Far Hills, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States located at the intersection of Route 202 and CR 512, one-half mile (0.80 km) east of Route 206.
- ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
- ^ Stuart, Sandy (April 26, 1990). "Competing Railroads Pulled Into Peapack 100 Years Ago Last week". The Bernardsville News. p. 3. Retrieved October 4, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Operating Passenger Railroad Stations in New Jersey (Report). National Register of Historic Places. 1981. p. 41. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
- ^ "Whitehouse". The Plainfield Courier-News. June 6, 1914. p. 9. Retrieved March 31, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New Far Hills Station Opened". The Bernardsville News. December 24, 1914. p. 8. Retrieved October 4, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Jones, Daniel P. (May 14, 1981). "Two Rush-Hour Trains Cut From Gladstone Branch". The Bernardsville News. pp. 1–2. 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.
- ^ 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. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Richard Meyer (May 1981). "New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey: Far Hills Station" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved May 31, 2015. Photo (1978)
