Newark Broad Street station

NJ Transit rail station

Newark Broad Street

Newark Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey in November 2009

General information
Location| Lackawanna Avenue and Broad Street
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Coordinates| 40°44′51″N 74°10′19″W﻿ / ﻿40.74750°N 74.17194°W﻿ / 40.74750; -74.17194
Owned by| New Jersey Transit
Line(s)| NJ Transit Rail Operations
Platforms|

* Commuter rail: 1 island platform, 1 side platform
* Light rail: 1 island platform

Tracks|

* Commuter rail: 3
* Light rail: 2

Connections|  NJ Transit Bus: 1, 11, 13, 27, 28, go28, 29, 30, 41, 71, 72, 73, 76, 78, 108, 378[1]
Construction
Platform levels| 2
Bicycle facilities| Yes[2]
Accessible| Yes
Other information
Station code| Light rail: 30775[3]
Fare zone| 2 (commuter rail)[4]
Website| www.njtransit.com/dv-to/Newark Broad Street Station
History
Opened| November 19, 1836 (November 19, 1836)[5]
Rebuilt| 1903, 2008
Electrified| September 3, 1930[6]
Passengers
2017| 2,996 (average weekday)[7][8]
Services
| Preceding station  |  NJ Transit | Following station

|
|

East Orange

toward Gladstone

|  | Gladstone Branch

(weekdays)

|  | Hoboken

Terminus

Secaucus Junction

(limited service)

toward New York

Watsessing Avenue

toward Hackettstown

|  | Montclair-Boonton Line |  | Hoboken

Terminus

| Montclair-Boonton Line

(weekdays)

|  | Secaucus Junction

toward New York

East Orange

toward Hackettstown

|  | Morristown Line |
| Morristown Line

(weekdays)

|  | Hoboken

Terminus

Harriet Tubman Square

toward Newark Penn Station

|  | Broad Street – Newark Penn |  | Terminus
Riverfront Stadium

One-way operation

Former services

| Preceding station  |  NJ Transit | Following station

|
|

Watsessing

toward Bay Street

|  | Montclair Branch |  | Hoboken

Terminus

Ampere

toward Bay Street

Roseville Avenue

toward Bay Street

|  | Montclair Branch

until 1984

|  | Harrison

toward Hoboken

Grove Street

toward Gladstone

|  | Gladstone Branch

until April 7, 1991

|  | Hoboken

Terminus

Grove Street

toward Hackettstown

|  | Morristown Line

until April 7, 1991

Preceding station  | Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad | Following station
Roseville Avenue

toward Buffalo

|  | Main Line  |  | Hoboken

Terminus

Roseville Avenue

toward Gladstone

|  | Gladstone Branch |
Roseville Avenue

toward Montclair

|  | Montclair Branch |  | Harrison

toward Hoboken

Newark Broad Street Station

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Area| 1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built| 1901
Architect| Frank J. Nies
Architectural style| Colonial Revival, Renaissance
MPS| Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.| 84002662[9]
Added to NRHP| June 22, 1984

Location

Newark Broad Street station is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail and light rail station at 25 University Avenue in Newark, New Jersey. Built in 1903, the station's historic architecture includes an elegant clock tower and a brick and stone façade on the station's main building. In June 1984, the station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its historical significance.

## History[edit]

The current station is the second on the site. The original station opened on November 19, 1836, at the east end of the opening segment of the Morris and Essex Railroad to Orange; for the first couple of decades trains east of Newark ran over the New Jersey Rail Road to Jersey City. The present station opened in 1903 after two years of construction, located on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line from Hoboken to Denville, Scranton and Buffalo The Newark Drawbridge connecting to the station and crossing the Passaic River to the east also opened in 1903. A number of western expansions were built, and Hoboken Terminal, the current eastern end of the line, opened in 1907. In 1945, the Morris and Essex Railroad officially merged into the Lackawanna Railroad, which had leased it since 1868 (though the Morris and Essex' separate identity had been largely lost years before). DL&W merged with the Erie Railroad in 1960 to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, which was absorbed by Conrail in 1976; NJ Transit has operated all passenger service since 1983.

The station had served several Lackawanna and then Erie Lackwanna passenger trains. These included the Lake Cities, Owl/New York Mail, Twilight/Pocono Express and the DLW flagship train, the Phoebe Snow.[10][11] However, all intercity service ended by 1970.

The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984[12] and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[13]

### Renovation[edit]

From 2004 to 2008 the station was renovated. The station changed from having two outside low platforms, with walkways across one track to the middle track, to having two high platforms, one of them an island platform, to facilitate cross-platform transfers. The historic westbound shelter was removed in the project and new westbound waiting areas were built.

### Proposed Scranton-NYC line[edit]

In 2023, a new Amtrak line was proposed between Scranton and New York with an estimated half a million riders annually by 2030. It is planned to hit 110 mph. The closest station to the New York Penn Station on the line is Newark Broad Street. The next stop will be either Morristown station or Montclair station depending on the schedule it is running.[14]

## Station layout and services[edit]

Broad Street Station is currently served by the Montclair-Boonton Line and both branches of the Morris and Essex Lines –– the Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch. All three lines either proceed to Secaucus Junction en route to New York Penn Station or terminate in Hoboken.

This station is also the northern terminus of the Newark Light Rail Broad Street Extension line from Newark Penn Station. Service on this line opened on July 17, 2006, although light rail service was unavailable from March through July 2008 due to a partial collapse of the former Westinghouse factory adjacent to the station during demolition. This allows passengers on the two commuter lines serving Broad Street to easily transfer to Newark Penn, and vice versa. Previously, passengers wishing to transfer in Newark had to make their own way (usually by bus or taxi) between the two stations.

## Gallery[edit]

* Station entrance on University Avenue

* Commuter rail platforms

* Light rail station

* Waiting room, during COVID-19 Pandemic

* Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic

* An Erie-Lackawana electric at Broad Street station in November 1978

## Bibliography[edit]

* Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Retrieved April 4, 2020.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Broad Street Station Area" (PDF) (Map). NJ Transit. August 2021. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
2. ^ "Newark Broad Street Station". NJ Transit. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
3. ^ "Newark Light Rail" (PDF) (Map). NJ Transit. September 2022. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
4. ^ "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.
5. ^ Douglass 1912, p. 339.
6. ^ "D.L.&W. Electric Train Hoboken to Montclair". The Madison Eagle. September 5, 1930. p. 6. Retrieved January 31, 2021 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
8. ^ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
9. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
10. ^ 1954 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad timetable http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/timetables/DLW042554.pdf
11. ^ 1961 Erie-Lackawanna timetable https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/ERIE_TABLE1_19610625.png
12. ^ Essex County Listings, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed July 16, 2018.
13. ^ Newark Broad Street Station New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
14. ^ Higgs, Larry (March 27, 2023). "A new Amtrak train ride from NYC to Scranton could hit 110 mph". nj.com. Retrieved March 30, 2023.

## External links[edit]

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