Boonton station
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Boonton | |||||||||||||
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![]() The New Jersey Transit platform for Boonton in September 2014. Main Street is on the bridge above the station. | |||||||||||||
Location | Main Street & Myrtle Avenue Boonton, NJ 07005 | ||||||||||||
Owned by | NJ Transit | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Construction | |||||||||||||
Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||
Station code | 29 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | ||||||||||||
Fare zone | 14 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | September 5, 1867[2] | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | June 1904[3]– | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2017 | 58 (average weekday)[4][5] | ||||||||||||
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station | |||||||||||||
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |||||||||||||
![]() The former Lackawanna Railroad depot in September 2014. | |||||||||||||
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Location | Myrtle Ave., Main, and Division Sts., Boonton, NJ | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°54′14″N 74°24′23″W / 40.90389°N 74.40639°WCoordinates: 40°54′14″N 74°24′23″W / 40.90389°N 74.40639°W | ||||||||||||
Area | 2.5 acres (1 ha) | ||||||||||||
Built | 1904 | ||||||||||||
Architect | Frank J. Nies | ||||||||||||
Engineer | L. Bush | ||||||||||||
Architectural style | Prairie School | ||||||||||||
MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 77000889[6] | ||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | July 13, 1977 |
Boonton is a NJ Transit station in Boonton, Morris County, New Jersey, United States along the Montclair-Boonton Line.
It is located on Main Street (County Route 511), near Myrtle Avenue (U.S. Route 202) and I-287. The original 1905 station was built by architect Frank J. Nies who built other stations for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Unlike most of his stations which tended to be massive Renaissance structures, Boonton station was built as a simple Prairie House design. The station house is now a bar, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1977, two years before the establishment of New Jersey Transit and six years before becoming part of their railroad division.
Station layout[]
Boonton has one mini-high level side platform.
Ground/ Platform level |
Outbound/Inbound | ← Montclair-Boonton Line PM rush hours toward Hackettstown (Mountain Lakes) Montclair-Boonton Line AM rush hours toward Hoboken or New York (Towaco) → |
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right | ||
Street level | Ticket machine and parking |
See also[]
- Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey
Bibliography[]
- Lyon, Isaac S. (1873). Historical Discourse on Boonton, Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the Evenings of September 21 and 28, and October 5, 1867. Newark, New Jersey: The Daily Journal Office. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
References[]
- ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 1.
- ^ Lyon 1873, p. 54.
- ^ "Boonton's New Station". The Passaic Daily News. June 22, 1904. p. 5. Retrieved June 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ^ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
External links[]
Media related to Boonton (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons
- 1907 post card of Boonton DL&W Station (The Erie-Lackawanna Archives)
- Main Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
- NJ Transit Rail Operations stations
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1867
- Former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad stations
- Boonton, New Jersey
- Railway stations in Morris County, New Jersey
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
- Prairie School architecture in New Jersey
- 1867 establishments in New Jersey
- New Jersey Registered Historic Place stubs
- New Jersey railway station stubs