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Bay Head station - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 40°04′34″N 74°02′47″W / 40.07611°N 74.04639°W

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Bay Head

Bay Head station in January 2018

General information

Location

Osborne Avenue
Bay Head, New Jersey 08742

Coordinates

40°04′34″N 74°02′47″W / 40.07611°N 74.04639°W

Owned by

NJ Transit

Platforms

1 side platform

Tracks

Construction

Parking

Yes

Bicycle facilities

Yes

Accessible

Other information

Station code

Fare zone

History

Opened

August 1, 1882^[1]

Rebuilt

1976^[2]

Electrified

Previous names

Bay Head Junction

Passengers

2012

200 (average weekday)^[3]

Services

Preceding station	NJ Transit			Following station
Terminus		North Jersey Coast Line		Point Pleasant Beach toward New York Penn Station

Former services

Preceding station	New York and Long Branch Railroad		Following station
Terminus		Main Line	Point Pleasant Beach toward Perth Amboy
Preceding station	Pennsylvania Railroad		Following station
Mantoloking toward Camden		Philadelphia and Long Branch Railroad	Terminus

Location

Bay Head is a railway station in Bay Head, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The station is served by trains on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, and it is the southern terminus for the line. The rail yard contains 33 acres (13 ha) of wetland inside the loop formed by the tracks used to turn around the trains.^[4] The rail yard borders Twilight Lake. Parking is free at the Bay Head station although the lot is only about a fourth of the size of the lot at the next station, Point Pleasant Beach, which requires payment.^[5]

This station is not listed as disabled accessible by NJ Transit. Passengers must use the train stairs to climb up to the cars or descend to street level. There is no ramp or platform to aid the handicapped in boarding. Weekend ridership to the Bay Head station rises during the summer as beachgoing vacationers take the train to the beach.^[6] In May 2011, ticket vending machines were installed next to the station building at Bay Head.

History

1946 trestle fire

On the morning of December 1, 1946, a fire destroyed the Pennsylvania Railroad's trestle across Barnegat Bay in Seaside Park. The 300-foot (91 m) section of the wooden structure caught fire, requiring firefighters from Seaside Park and Ocean Gate to spend over six hours dousing the inferno. As a result of the response, the fire damage was limited to the center part of the span, interrupting rail service between Bay Head and Toms River. At Toms River, buses would take passengers to Long Branch. The damage in total ruined all the pilings and railroad ties in the original 300-foot (91 m) section and warped much of the rails on the trestle.^[7]

Service to Bay Head after the fire became bus only for Pennsylvania Railroad customers from Camden as trains 994, 995, 998 and 999 only operated to station at Pemberton. From there, a bus would take the passengers to Bay Head.^[8] Passenger service would continue to Barnegat Pier from Toms River until December 14, 1948, at which point all the tracks between Toms River and Bay Head were abandoned.^[9]

Station layout

The station has a low-level side platform serving trains in both directions, most trains also use track one, the doors open at the street.

Bibliography

United States Congress (1884). The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Forty-Eighth Congress, 1883-'84. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office.
Begley, Thomas C. (1950). Awards 4901 to 5000 Third Division Interpretation (Serial No. 92). Vol. 47. Chicago, Illinois: Champlin-Shealy Company.

References

^ United States Congress 1884, p. 487.
^ "Then and Now". The Asbury Park Press. January 21, 1979. p. 60. Retrieved September 26, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Quarterly Ridership Trends Analysis" (PDF). NJ Transit. December 27, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
^ Bay Head planning to fight state's rail yard plan in court. Asbury Park Press. Nina Rizzo. June 25, 2002.
^ Ordinance will set train station parking fees. Asbury Park Press. Tristan J. Schweiger. April 15, 2007.
^ 'Benny' or not, here they come, Natives grin and share the weekly trip to Shore. Ana M. Alaya. The Star-Ledger. July 1, 2005.
^ "Fire Wrecks Barnegat Bay Rail Trestle". Asbury Park Evening Press. December 2, 1946. p. 1. Retrieved September 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Begley 1950, p. 18.
^ Baer, Christopher T. (April 2015). "A General Chronology of the Successors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and Their Historical Context: 1948" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical Historical Society. p. 27. Retrieved September 13, 2024.

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