Netcong | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Netcong station in December 2014 from the station platform. Route 46 is visible to the right. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Main Street at U.S. Route 46, Netcong, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°53′51.5″N 74°42′26.5″W / 40.897639°N 74.707361°W | |||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit | |||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Lakeland: 80 | |||||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Free and no overnight parking | |||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 902 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 19[2] | |||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | January 16, 1854[3][4] | |||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1901–June 14, 1903[5] | |||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | No | |||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | South Stanhope Netcong–Stanhope | |||||||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | 82 (average weekday)[6][7] | |||||||||||||||||
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Netcong is an NJ Transit station in Netcong, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Located on Route 46 at Main Street in downtown Netcong, the small, 1-low level side platform station service passengers for the Morristown Line and the Montclair-Boonton Line. These lines provide service to Hoboken or to New York City via Midtown Direct on the Morristown Line at Dover station and Montclair-Boonton at Montclair State University station. Midtown Direct service can also be transferred at Newark Broad Street station in Newark. There is one track and one platform on the north side, adjacent to the station. NJ Transit maintains a substantial train servicing yard east of the Netcong station at Port Morris in Roxbury Township. Port Morris Yard is proposed to return as the junction of the Montclair-Boonton and Morristown lines for the Lackawanna Cut-Off line to Scranton. Transfers would be provided at Lake Hopatcong station in Landing.[8]
- ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
- ^ "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables" (PDF) (May 23, 2010 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: NJ Transit Rail Operations. 2010. pp. 1–4. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
- ^ Davis, J.M. "Letter to the New York Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society" (PDF). The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. p. 8. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
- ^ New Jersey Comptroller of the Treasury 1856, p. 31.
- ^ Rutan 2013, p. 14.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). NJ 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.
- ^ "2007-2008 Annual Report" (PDF). New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 1, 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2010.