Silver Lake station

Silver Lake
Silver Lake station platforms
General information
Location	208 Heckel Street Belleville, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°46′49″N 74°10′49″W / 40.7803°N 74.1804°W / 40.7803; -74.1804
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJ Transit Bus: 27, 90
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Bicycle facilities	Yes[1]
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	30761[2]
History
Opened	June 22, 2002 (June 22, 2002)[3]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Grove Street Terminus Grove Street – Newark Penn Branch Brook Park toward Newark Penn Station
Former services Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Bloomfield Avenue toward West Orange Orange Branch Forest Hill Terminus
Location

Silver Lake station is a surface-level light rail station operated by New Jersey Transit in Belleville, New Jersey. The station is the only one in Belleville, operating along the Grove Street–Newark Penn Station line of the Newark Light Rail. The station contains two low-level platforms that are off-centered. The Newark-bound platform is accessible from Franklin Street (County Route 607) and nearby Heckel Street while the Grove Street-bound platform is accessible from nearby Belmont Avenue.

The current light rail station opened on June 22, 2002, as part of an extension of the Newark City Subway from nearby Branch Brook Park station to Grove Street in Bloomfield. The station uses former tracks of the former Erie Railroad Orange Branch, which went from nearby Forest Hill in Newark to West Orange. Service on this line ended on June 20, 1955.^[4] Silver Lake boasted a full wooden station depot with a built-in railroad tower.^[5]