Summary
Morris Plains Station is a NJ Transit station in Morris Plains, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morristown Line at Route 202 (Speedwell Ave/Littleton Rd) in downtown Morris Plains. It is a local station.
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 Station at Morris Plains | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 673 Speedwell Avenue (US 202), Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950 | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | NJT Bus: 872, 875, 880 | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | 432 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 16 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | July 4, 1848[2][3] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1915[4] | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | January 22, 1931[5] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 619 (average weekday)[6][7] | ||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 40°49′43″N 74°28′42″W / 40.82861°N 74.47833°W | ||||||||||||
| Area | 1.5 acres (0.6 ha) | ||||||||||||
| Built | 1915 | ||||||||||||
| Architect | Nies, Frank J. | ||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Renaissance | ||||||||||||
| MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||||
| NRHP reference No. | 84002780[8] | ||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 | ||||||||||||
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The former Lackawanna station was built in 1915 and has a brick station house. It was designed by architect Frank J. Nies who built other stations for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Unlike most of his stations which tended to resemble massive cathedrals, Morris Plains station was built as a simple one-story structure, which also contains a unique Spanish tile roof. An old train station just to the north now serves as The Morris Plains Model Railroad Club.[9] The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1984, along with over 100 other stations within the state as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[10] Now trains passing through Morris Plains go to NY Penn Station, Hackettstown Station, Dover Station and Hoboken Terminal. The train station is served by the M&E (Morris and Essex Line) Trains
Station layout edit
The station has two tracks, each with a low-level side platform.
See also edit
Bibliography edit
- Platt, Charles Davis (1922). Dover Dates, 1722-1922: A Bicentennial History of Dover, New Jersey , Published in Connection with Dover's Two Hundredth Anniversary Celebration Under the Direction of the Dover Fire Department, August 9, 10, 11, 1922. Dover, New Jersey: Charles Davis Platt. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
References edit
- ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
- ^ Arch, Brad (January 1982). "The Morris and Essex Railroad" (PDF). Journal of New Jersey Postal History Society. X (1): 4–8. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- ^ Platt 1922, p. 36.
- ^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 99. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.
- ^ "Electric Line Finished". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. January 22, 1931. p. 1. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ^ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#84002780)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 5 Things About the Model Train Club (MorrisPatch.com)
- ^ Morris Plains New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
External links edit
- Littleton Road entrance from Google Maps Street View