Orange station (NJ Transit)

NJ Transit rail station

Orange

Dover-bound train approaches, in April 2015

General information
Location| 52 Lincoln Avenue, Orange, New Jersey
Owned by| New Jersey Transit
Platforms| 2 side platforms
Tracks| 3
Connections|  NJT Bus: 21, 24, 41, 44, 71, 73, 79, and 92
Community Coach: 77

Construction
Bicycle facilities| Yes
Other information
Fare zone| 4[1]
History
Opened| November 19, 1836[2]
Electrified| September 22, 1930[3]
Passengers
2017| 1,401 (average weekday)[4][5]
Services
| Preceding station  |  NJ Transit | Following station

|
|

Highland Avenue

toward Gladstone

|  | Gladstone Branch

weekdays

|  | Brick Church

toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken

Highland Avenue

toward Hackettstown

|  | Morristown Line |

Former services

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

|
|

Highland Avenue

toward Buffalo

|  | Main Line  |  | Brick Church

toward Hoboken

Orange Station

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The station depot at Orange.

Location| 73 Lincoln Avenue, Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates| 40°46′18″N 74°14′2″W﻿ / ﻿40.77167°N 74.23389°W﻿ / 40.77167; -74.23389
Area| 4.5 acres (1.8 ha)
Built| 1918
Architect| Nies, F. J.
Architectural style| Renaissance
MPS| Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.| 84002665[6]
Added to NRHP| June 22, 1984

Location

Orange is an active commuter railroad train station in the city of Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. One of two stops in the city (along with Highland Avenue), it is served by New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines: the Morristown Line to Hackettstown and the Gladstone Branch to Gladstone for trains from New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal. Orange station contains two low-level side platforms and three tracks.

Orange station opened on November 19, 1836, with the opening of the Morris and Essex Railroad from Newark to Orange. The station served as the western terminus of the line until September 28, 1837, when the railroad started operations west to Madison station.[7] The current station depots and overhangs were built in 1918 with the elevation of tracks through the city by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The station depot at 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.

## History

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The brick station and nearby freight terminal were built in 1918. The station building 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.[8][9]

## Station layout

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Both platforms have walkways over their respective track allowing passengers to access Track 1, though trains on Track 1 do not typically stop at this station.

## See also

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* List of New Jersey Transit stations
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey

## Bibliography

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* Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
* Walker, Herbert T. (1902). "Early History of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and it's Locomotives - Part 2: The Morris and Essex Railroad". Railroad Gazette. 34. Retrieved November 9, 2022.

## References

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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. ^ Douglass 1912, p. 339.
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. ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
5. ^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
6. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
7. ^ Walker 1902, p. 409.
8. ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection \- Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
9. ^ Orange New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey

## External links

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