Wood-Ridge station
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Wood-Ridge is an active commuter railroad train station in the borough of Wood-Ridge, Bergen County, New Jersey. Located next to the interchange of Route 17 and Moonachie (County Route 36), the single low-level side platform station services trains of New Jersey Transit's Pascack Valley Line between Hoboken Terminal and Spring Valley. The next station to the north is Teterboro and to the south is Secaucus Junction. Wood-Ridge station is not accessible to handicapped persons and contains parking along Park Place East.
Wood-Ridge | |||||||||||||
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Location | Park Place East at Route 17 / Moonachie Avenue interchange, Wood-Ridge, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40.8437°N 74.0789°W / 40.8437; -74.0789 | ||||||||||||
Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 20 | ||||||||||||
Accessible | No | ||||||||||||
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Station code | 763 (Erie Railroad)[1] | ||||||||||||
Fare zone | 3[2] | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | January 21, 1861[3][4] | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1967[5] | ||||||||||||
Previous names | Woodridge–Moonachie[6] | ||||||||||||
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July 1, 1981 | Station agent eliminated[7] | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2018 | 305 (average weekday)[8] | ||||||||||||
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Service through the Wood-Ridge section of Bergen Township began with the opening of the Hackensack and New York Railroad on January 21, 1861 as Woodridge–Moonachie. The station contained a two-story wooden passenger station with dimensions of 39 by 18 feet (11.9 m × 5.5 m) with two freight houses, a 13 by 13 feet (4.0 m × 4.0 m) wooden structure and an old railroad car body serving as a secondary facility.[6][9] With the reconstruction of Route 17 in 1967, the railroad received approval to demolish the depot at Woodridge–Moonachie, which would be used by new right-of-way. As a result, a new 1,200 square feet (110 m2) concrete block depot would replace the wooden structure. This would also result in the elimination of stations at Hasbrouck Heights and Carlstadt.[10]
New Jersey Transit eliminated the station agent on July 1, 1981, closing the station depot in 1987 due to vandalism. They reversed the decision in September 1997.[11]