Mountain Station

Not to be confused with Mountain Avenue station.

Mountain Station is a New Jersey Transit station in South Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morris and Essex (formerly Erie Lackawanna Morristown Line).^[9] The station, built in 1915, was designed by Frank J. Nies. It has been listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.^{[7][8][10][11]}

Mountain Station
Mountain Station facing eastbound from the New York City-bound platform in December 2014
General information
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 92 (one block east on Scotland Road)
Other information
Fare zone	5[1]
History
Rebuilt	1870s, 1914–1915[2]
Electrified	September 22, 1930[3]
Previous names	Montrose[4]
Passengers
2017	333 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station South Orange toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch weekdays Highland Avenue toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken South Orange toward Hackettstown Morristown Line
Former services Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station South Orange toward Buffalo Main Line Highland Avenue toward Hoboken
Mountain Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The eastbound station depot at Mountain station, seen in December 2014 from Vose Avenue.
Location	449 Vose Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°45′17″N 74°15′13″W
Area	2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
Built	1915
Architect	Nies, Frank J.
Architectural style	Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002656[7][8]
Added to NRHP	September 29, 1984
Location

Station layout and service

The station is somewhat unusual in that when the Lackawanna Railroad rebuilt the Morristown Line during the 1910s and 1920s, to eliminate grade crossings between Newark and Millburn, Mountain Station was the only location at which the elevation of the railroad's roadbed was not changed. As a result, the grade crossing of Montrose Avenue at the eastbound end of the station was eliminated and the roadway was raised onto a bridge.^[2] At the westbound end of the station, the Mountain House Road crossing was eliminated entirely and a pedestrian walkway was built. The walkway was removed during the late 1970s as part of the re-electrification project for the line, however, access to Montrose Avenue is still available due to stairs on the platform.^{[citation needed]}

At present, as in the past, most trains that stop here proceed onto, or have originated in, Hoboken. Most Midtown Direct trains into New York City bypass Mountain Station, but a large number do stop at the main station in South Orange, which is less than a mile to the south (timetable west). Midtown Direct trains can be accessed from Mountain Station by transferring at an intermediate station. In addition, the 92 NJT Bus is available on Scotland Road, which goes to either South Orange Station or towards Branch Brook Park Light Rail Station.

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations
• Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey)
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey

Notes

1. "Morris and Essex Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 4, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
2. Taber & Taber 1980, p. 86
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. Taber & Taber 1981, p. 753
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. March 13, 2009.
8. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
9. "New Jersey Transit". www.njtransit.com.
10. Mountain Station New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
11. "National Register of Historical Places - NEW JERSEY (NJ), Essex County". www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com.

References

• Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.
• Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.

External links

• Media related to Mountain Station (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Montrose Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View