Vreeland Avenue station

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Vreeland Avenue

Vreeland Avenue station in October 2014.

General information

Location

265 Vreeland Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey

Owned by

Line(s)

Platforms

Tracks

Other information

Station code

1113 (Erie Railroad)^[1]

History

Opened

1873; 151 years ago

Closed

June 30, 1966; 58 years ago

Rebuilt

September 20, 1949^[2]^[3]

Electrified

Not electrified

Services

Preceding station	New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad			Following station
Broadway–Paterson toward Stroudsburg		Main Line		East Paterson toward Susquehanna Transfer or Jersey City

Vreeland Avenue was a railroad station in Paterson, New Jersey served by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (NYS&W).^[4] until 1966. Service by the New Jersey Midland, a predecessor to the NYS&W, had begun in 1873. The station house dates to 1949.^[3] Other extant station buildings from the New Jersey Midland/NYSW can be found at Wortendyke, Butler, and Newfoundland, among other places.^[5]

References

^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
^ "Around Paterson". The Herald-News. Passaic, New Jersey. September 20, 1949. p. 17. Retrieved February 23, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "New Vreeland Ave. Station". The Morning Call. Paterson, New Jersey. September 29, 1949. p. 21. Retrieved May 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Kaminski, Edward S. (2010), NEW YORK, SUSQUEHANNA & WESTERN RAILROAD IN NEW JERSEY, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-7367-0
^ "Surviving New Jersey Railroad Stations" (PDF). American-Rails.com. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
^ "Passaic Bergen Hudson Transit Project". njtransit.com. NJ Transit. 2021. Retrieved February 26, 2021.

"NY, Susquehanna & Western RR Stations". Flickr. 11 September 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2016.

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