Netherwood station explained

Netherwood
Style:NJ Transit
Style2:NJ Transit BOF
Address:South Avenue (NJ 28) & Belvedere Avenue, Plainfield, New Jersey
Line:Raritan Valley Line
Other:NJ Transit Bus


Olympia Trails: Westfield Commuter Service

Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes
Passengers:546 (average weekday)[1]
Pass Year:2012
Opened:1874[2]
Rebuilt:July 23, 1892 - 1893[3]
Accessible:No
Owned:New Jersey Transit
Zone:10[4]
Years1:March 20, 1892
Events1:Station depot burns[5]
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
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Embed:yes
Netherwood Station
Location:Between North and South Aves., Plainfield, New Jersey
Coordinates:40.6292°N -74.4036°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:12
Architecture:Queen Anne, Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
Added:June 22, 1984
Refnum:84002830

Netherwood is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is located along North Avenue at the intersection of Netherwood Avenue and along South Avenue at the intersection of Belvedere Avenue. The station has a ticket vending machine, and the station house itself is located off of South Avenue.

History

Netherwood station was originally built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1894. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Downtown Plainfield station), whereas the community previously had five; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue (formerly known as Evona). 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, along with the other active station downtown.[6]

Station layout

The station has two low-level side platforms serving two tracks. The inbound platform is long while the outbound platform is long; both can accommodate four cars.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS . New Jersey Transit . December 31, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130419042253/http://media.nj.com/bergen_impact/other/1Q2013.pdf . April 19, 2013 . dead .
  2. Book: Bernhart. Benjamin L.. Historic Journeys By Rail: Central Railroad of New Jersey Stations, Structures & Marine Equipment. 2004. Outer Station Project. 1891402072. 61.
  3. News: A New Depot for Netherwood At Last . January 26, 2020 . The Plainfield Courier . July 23, 1892 . 3. Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: Raritan Valley Line Timetables. New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 27, 2010. November 7, 2010. Newark, New Jersey. November 7, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161107152229/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0060.pdf. dead.
  5. News: A Sunday Afternoon . January 26, 2020 . The Plainfield Courier . March 21, 1892 . 3. Newspapers.com.
  6. Web site: New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places . New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office . 7 January 2015.
  7. Web site: July 2020 . RARITAN VALLEY LINE ONE-SEAT RIDE SERVICE TO MANHATTAN . 2023-06-09 . 76; 81.