Grove Street station (NJ Transit)

This article is about the former NJ Transit station. For the PATH station, see Grove Street station (PATH). For the Newark Light Rail station, see Grove Street station (Newark Light Rail).

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Grove Street
Grove Street station shortly after the tracks were elevated in 1922.
General information
Location	Grove Street and Main Street in East Orange, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Gladstone Branch   Morristown Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
History
Opened	1903
Closed	April 7, 1991[1]
Electrified	September 22, 1930[2]
Previous names	East Orange[3]
Former services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station East Orange toward Hackettstown Morristown Line Roseville Avenue toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken East Orange toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station East Orange toward Buffalo Main Line Roseville Avenue toward Hoboken
Location

Grove Street was a NJ Transit station in East Orange, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, along the Morris & Essex Lines. The station was first built in 1901 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W), and opened to the public in 1903.^[4] A second story was added to the eastbound station house after the DL&W elevated the tracks through East Orange in 1922.^[4] NJ Transit discontinued rail service to Grove Street on April 7, 1991.^[5][1] The entire station was demolished in 1995.

References

1. Morris & Essex Lines Timetable (April 7, 1991 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 1991.
2. "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.
3. 40 Miles Around New York (Map). New York, New York: H.H. Lloyd and Co. 1867. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
4. East Orange Interactive Museum. "East Orange Train Station History". www.eohistory.info. Retrieved 2019-04-04.
5. "NJ Transit train times revised", Courier-News, April 7, 1991. Accessed December 24, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Passengers traveling from the Ampere Station on the Montclair branch and the Grove Street Station on the Morristown Line are reminded that service to these stations will be discontinued effective today.."