Roselle Park station

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Roselle Park
The Roselle Park station from the platform. The station depot is in the parking lot below.
Location	West Lincoln Avenue & Donald Place, Roselle Park, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°40′02″N 74°16′00″W / 40.6672°N 74.2666°W / 40.6672; -74.2666Coordinates: 40°40′02″N 74°16′00″W / 40.6672°N 74.2666°W / 40.6672; -74.2666
Owned by	Norfolk Southern Railway
Line(s)	Lehigh Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	NJ Transit Bus: 94, 113
Other information
Fare zone	6
History
Opened	February 3, 1891[1]
Rebuilt	April 30, 1967
Passengers
2012	845 (average weekday)[2]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Cranford toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Union toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former lines
Preceding station Lehigh Valley Railroad Following station Bound Brook toward Buffalo Main Line Townley toward New York or Jersey City toward Buffalo

Roselle Park is a New Jersey Transit railroad station in Roselle Park, New Jersey. Located on the Conrail Lehigh Line which is owned by Conrail Shared Assets Operations on West Lincoln Avenue between Chestnut Street and Locust Street, it is served by Raritan Valley Line trains that travel between Newark Penn Station and Raritan. There is also limited service between High Bridge and New York Penn Station and one weekday morning train to Hoboken Terminal.

History[]

The station is located at milepost 16.0 on the Conrail Lehigh Line. This is part of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad main line, built by LV subsidiary Newark & Roselle Railway. The second station to stand on the property, it was built in 1967 during the construction of the Aldene Plan. The Aldene Plan was a joint project between the railroads, New Jersey Department of Transportation, and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which elevated trackage above ground level to eliminate grade crossings and rerouted Central Railroad of New Jersey trains (one of NJ Transit's predecessor railroads) from its aging Jersey City terminal to Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey.^[3]

When bankruptcy struck, the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Railroad were forced to fold into the Consolidated Rail Corporation on April 1, 1976. On that date, the New Jersey Department of Transportation took over commuter rail operations statewide. In 1981 the State of New Jersey created New Jersey Transit to oversee all commuter operations, rail and bus, in the state. Since then, NJ Transit has continued to operate and improve services on the Raritan Valley Line.

In Spring 1997, negotiations began for the joint purchase of Conrail by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway. The Surface Transportation Board officially approved the acquisition and restructuring of Conrail on July 23, 1998. The approved restructuring plan transformed Conrail into a private, non-common carrier switching and terminal railroad that operates on behalf of its owners, using rolling stock and locomotives supplied by its owners. Property was divided using a system of railroad heritage, bringing ownership of the route and Roselle Park station to Norfolk Southern Railway. The purchase, often referred to as the "Conrail split" by railroaders, was made final on April 1, 1999.

Station layout and service[]

The station has one high-level island platform.

Freight operations[]

The station has a gauntlet track (a slightly shifted-over track) on the track 2 side that allows freight trains to pass the high level platform safely. Currently, freight trains past the station are operated by Conrail, CSX Transportation, and Norfolk Southern Railway. The route has become a critical artery in transcontinental transportation, particularly for intermodal, retail and petrochemical traffic. Tonnage over this route reaches as far west as Chicago and Los Angeles, south to Atlanta and Jacksonville, and east to Vermont and Maine. Currently 30-40 freights pass the station depending on the day of the week.

References[]

External links[]

Media related to Roselle Park (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Official Borough of Roselle Park Website
• NJTransit Rail Operations Raritan Line Schedule
• NJTransit Rail Operations DepartureVision: Roselle Park
• NJTransit Rail Operations Roselle Park Station Information
• Roselle Park Station Photos on Railroad Picture Archives
• Roselle Park Station Photos on Railpictures.net