East Orange station

East Orange is an active commuter railroad train station in the city of East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. Located next to East Orange City Hall, the station serves trains on the two lines that make up New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines: the Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch. Trains heading east to New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal stop at Newark Broad Street Station next, while trains heading west towards Gladstone and Hackettstown stop at Brick Church station. East Orange station contains two platforms (one side platform and one island platform) to service three active tracks. The station is accessible for handicapped persons per the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

East Orange
The East Orange station in April 2015, facing toward Brick Church.
General information
Location	65 City Hall Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, and 94 Community Coach: 77
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	November 19, 1836[1]
Rebuilt	April 21, 1921–December 18, 1922[2]
Electrified	September 22, 1930[3]
Previous names	Orange Junction[4]
Passengers
2017	455 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Brick Church toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch weekdays Newark Broad Street toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Brick Church toward Hackettstown Morristown Line
Former services Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Brick Church toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch until April 7, 1991 Grove Street toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Brick Church toward Hackettstown Morristown Line until April 7, 1991 Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Brick Church toward Buffalo Main Line Grove Street toward Hoboken
East Orange Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
East Orange station depot
Coordinates	40°45′40.8″N 74°12′39.5″W
Built	1921
Architect	F.W. Nies
Architectural style	Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002638[7]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Location

Service in East Orange began on November 19, 1836 when the Morris and Essex Railroad opened to Orange. Originally the station was known as Orange Junction as the name East Orange was assigned to the now-closed Grove Street station to the east.^[4] The current station at the location opened on December 18, 1922 when the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad completed an elevation project of the tracks through the city. The headhouse at East Orange station were added to the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1984 as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.^[8][9]

History

Station owner New Jersey Transit decided to perform work at East Orange station to improve accessibility for the handicapped and to repair eighty-year-old viaducts at the station.^[10] At a cost of $22.9 million, repair work at East Orange, along with nearby station Brick Church commenced in 2004.^[11] East Orange received a mini-high level platform, the tracks surrounding the station were upgraded with concrete ties and the stairways leading to the platforms were replaced.^[12]

Station layout

The station has two low-level platforms serving all three tracks.

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations

Bibliography

• Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Retrieved April 5, 2020.

References

1. Douglass 1912, p. 339.
2. "D., L. & W. Opens New Elevated Line". The Paterson Evening News. December 18, 1922. p. 1. Retrieved March 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Edison Pilots First Electric Train Over Orange-Hoboken Route". The Passaic Daily News. September 22, 1930. p. 5. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
4. 40 Miles Around New York (Map). New York, New York: H.H. Lloyd and Co. 1867. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
5. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
6. Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
7. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
8. Monmouth County Listings, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed September 2, 2007.
9. East Orange New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
10. M&E station improvement and viaduct rehabilitation Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine NJ Transit official site Retrieved August 6, 2007
11. NJ Transit approves $22.9 million in viaduct repairs Progressive Railroading Retrieved August 6, 2007
12. NJ Transit breaks ground on three-station rehab project Progressive Railroading Retrieved August 7, 2007

External links

Media related to East Orange (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons