Glen Ridge station

Glen Ridge
Glen Ridge station
General information
Location224 Ridgewood Avenue (CR 653), Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Coordinates40°48′01″N 74°12′15″W / 40.8002°N 74.2043°W / 40.8002; -74.2043
Owned byNew Jersey Transit
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsNJT Bus NJT Bus: 11, 28, and 29
(all buses on Bloomfield Avenue)
Other information
Station code603 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1]
Fare zone4
History
Opened1860[2]
Rebuilt1872;[2] 1887[2]
ElectrifiedSeptember 3, 1930[3]
Previous namesRidgewood[4]
Passengers
20171,410 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Bay Street Montclair-Boonton Line Bloomfield
Former services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Bay Street
Terminus
Montclair Branch Bloomfield
toward Hoboken
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Montclair
Terminus
Montclair Branch Bloomfield
toward Hoboken
Location
Map

Glen Ridge is a New Jersey Transit station at the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue in Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. Service through Glen Ridge comes from Hoboken Terminal and New York Penn Station and goes through to one of four termini, Bay Street (on weekends), Montclair State University, Dover and Hackettstown. The station depot is on-grade level with Ridgewood Avenue, with the platform and tracks below street-level.

  1. ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
  2. ^ a b c "Transportation". Glen Ridge Historical Society. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
  3. ^ "D.L.&W. Electric Train Hoboken to Montclair". The Madison Eagle. September 5, 1930. p. 6. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 761. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
  5. ^ "Quarterly Ridership Trends Analysis" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  6. ^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.