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Glen Ridge station - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 40°48′01″N 74°12′15″W / 40.8002°N 74.2043°W

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Glen Ridge

Glen Ridge station

General information

Location

224 Ridgewood Avenue (CR 653), Glen Ridge, New Jersey

Coordinates

40°48′01″N 74°12′15″W / 40.8002°N 74.2043°W

Owned by

New Jersey Transit

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Connections

NJT Bus: 11, 28, and 29
(all buses on Bloomfield Avenue)

Other information

Station code

603 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)^[1]

Fare zone

History

Opened

1860^[2]

Rebuilt

1872;^[2] 1887^[2]

Electrified

September 3, 1930^[3]

Previous names

Ridgewood^[4]

Passengers

2017

1,410 (average weekday)^[5]^[6]

Services

Preceding station	NJ Transit			Following station
Bay Street toward Hackettstown		Montclair-Boonton Line		Bloomfield toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken

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

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.

History

Railroad service through Glen Ridge began in 1860 with the construction of a platform on the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad at Prospect Street (modern-day Ridgewood Avenue) known as Ridgewood. The tracks were built eight years prior and no service in the area began until a nearby flag stop opened for a private entrepreneur in 1857. The railroad built a new wooden station at Ridgewood Avenue in 1872, replacing that in 1887.^[2]

The platforms at Glen Ridge, along with the stations at Bloomfield and Watsessing Avenue stations along the Montclair Branch were all built in 1912 during a grade separation program by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. The Glen Ridge station, like the Watsessing Avenue station, was set below street level. It is a contributing property to the Glen Ridge Historic District and the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.^[7]

Station layout

Glen Ridge's low-level side platforms are not accessible.

In popular culture

Glen Ridge the site of the train station scene in the 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile that starred Julia Roberts. It also appeared in Far From Heaven.

References

^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Transportation". Glen Ridge Historical Society. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
^ "D.L.&W. Electric Train Hoboken to Montclair". The Madison Eagle. September 5, 1930. p. 6. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ 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.
^ "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.
^ "New Jersey and National Register Listings". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 22, 2015.

External links

Station House from Google Maps Street View

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glen Ridge (NJT station).

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