Radburn station

Radburn is a New Jersey Transit train station in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, served by the Bergen County Line. It is on Fair Lawn Avenue in the Radburn section of Fair Lawn, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of two New Jersey Transit train stations in Fair Lawn, the other being Broadway.

Radburn
The 1929 station depot at Radburn is on the left in May 2014.
General information
Location	Pollitt Drive at Fair Lawn Avenue (CR 76), Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.9396°N 74.1217°W / 40.9396; -74.1217
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 145 and 171
Other information
Fare zone	6[1]
History
Opened	October 1, 1881[2][3]
Rebuilt	April–October 1929[4][5]
Passengers
2018	1,592 (average weekday)[6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Glen Rock–Boro Hall toward Suffern Bergen County Line Broadway toward Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Glen Rock-Bergen Line toward Ridgewood Bergen County Railroad Fair Lawn toward Jersey City
Radburn-Fair Lawn Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
The depot at Radburn in May 2014.
Location	Pollitt Drive, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°56′22″N 74°7′19″W
Area	0.3 acres (0.1 ha)
Built	1929
Architect	Clarence S. Stein
Architectural style	Dutch Colonial Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002580[7]
NJRHP No.	483[8]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Designated NJRHP	March 17, 1984
Location

The station was designed and built in 1929 by Clarence Stein, as part of the Radburn development. It has been listed in the state and federal Registers of Historic Places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.^{[7][8][9][10]}

History

The former station depot at Radburn, when the station was known as Fair Lawn

The location of the Radburn development was considered beneficial because of its location on the Erie Railroad with connections to Jersey City, Newark and Manhattan. The designers of the development saw the benefit of a suburban railroad station for planning throughout the New York Metropolitan Area. In July 1928, they proposed the Fairlawn Station Square with a depot that cost $60,000 (1928 USD) and would serve those who would be in the neighborhood after construction of the first 200 homers. The new depot would serve Suffern to the north and Hoboken to the southeast along with connections in the area.^[11]

A new railroad depot was constructed on the Bergen County Railroad in 1929. The depot replaced a wooden freight depot that served the area. This new station was designed by Clarence Stein in a Dutch Colonial Revival to keep the idea of modern and efficient and in a similar style of the Radburn neighborhood. The new Radburn station had three sections: a central area that contained the 640-foot (200 m) waiting room and ticket office. This new pavilion contained a sloping and overhanging roof. This south wing of the depot contained the restrooms, and the north wing contained the office of the track supervisor, the baggage room and a porch for customers. The depot had a sandstone design with 14-foot (4.3 m) vaulted ceilings with a slate roof and clapboarding siding.^[11]

Station layout

The station has two tracks, each with a low-level side platform. It is staffed with a station agent on weekday mornings.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Bergen County, New Jersey

Bibliography

• Clayton, W. Woodford (1882). History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Everts & Peck. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
• Poor, Henry Varnum (1884). Poor's Manual of Railroads. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: H.V. & H.W. Poor. Retrieved July 28, 2020.