Teterboro station

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Teterboro
Teterboro NJT Station.JPG
Teterboro station in August 2008
Coordinates40°51′53″N 74°03′46″W / 40.8648°N 74.0628°W / 40.8648; -74.0628Coordinates: 40°51′53″N 74°03′46″W / 40.8648°N 74.0628°W / 40.8648; -74.0628
Owned byNJ Transit
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Other information
Station code767 (Erie Railroad)[1]
Fare zone4[2]
History
OpenedMay 29, 1904[4]
Rebuilt1967[5]
Previous namesWilliams Avenue[3]
Passengers
201296 (average weekday)[6]
Services
Preceding station NJT logo.svg NJ Transit Following station
Essex Street
toward Spring Valley
 Pascack Valley Line Wood-Ridge
toward Hoboken
Former services
Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station
Hackensack
toward
New Jersey and New York Railroad
toward Jersey City

Teterboro, formerly known as Williams Avenue,[3] is a NJ Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line. The station is in Hasbrouck Heights, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and is located on Williams Avenue near Route 17 and Route 46, near Teterboro Airport.

Previously Teterboro had no weekend service, and with the exception for one late-night outbound local train from Hoboken. However, on November 8, 2020, the station saw weekend service added. [7]

Station layout[]

The station has one track and one low-level side platform four cars long to its east. Although it was formerly named Williams Avenue, that street dead-ends on the line on the opposite side of the platform (since August 17, 1934)[8] which can only be accessed by Green Street that runs alongside it. Since there is no way to reach the station from its west side, customers from there often illegally crossed the tracks from the Williams Avenue dead-end to reach the platform. In February 2013, New Jersey Transit built a barbed-wire fence on this dead-end, forcing riders from the west side to loop around the station through Route 46 and Route 17, neither of which have sidewalks, to reach it.[9][10]

The platform has a wide painted yellow line below track level and a silver highway guard rail (with gaps to enter it) separating it from the 27-space parking lot that is in between it and Green Street. The southern end of the platform in the tiny area south of the parking lot's end has a bike rack for two behind a single wooden bench. There is a tiny silver shelter that has another bench next to the station's only ticket vending machine.

References[]

  1. ^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
  2. ^ "Pascack Valley Line Timetables" (PDF) (November 7, 2010 ed.). New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Yanosey, Robert J. (2006). Erie Railroad Facilities (In Color). Vol. 1. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 100–101. ISBN 1-58248-183-0.
  4. ^ "Miscellaneous Locals". The Evening Record and Bergen County Herald. Hackensack, New Jersey. May 28, 1904. p. 3. Retrieved February 15, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  5. ^ "Stations of Erie to Be Merged". The Bergen Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. May 24, 1967. p. 19. Retrieved February 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  6. ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  7. ^ "Nj Transit".
  8. ^ "Heights Street Changed". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. August 18, 1934. p. 4. Retrieved November 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  9. ^ "Dude Where's My Train Station?". Systemic Failure. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  10. ^ "Great Moments in NJ Transit: It costs what to build a fence?". Second Ave. Sagas. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2016.

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