Convent Station
Convent Station stationhouse
General information
LocationConvent Road at Old Turnpike Road
Morris Township, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°46′44″N 74°26′36″W / 40.77889°N 74.44333°W / 40.77889; -74.44333
Owned byNew Jersey Transit
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport NJ Transit Bus: 873, 878
Construction
Parking580 spaces, 9 accessible spaces
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleNo
Other information
Station code428 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1]
Fare zone12
History
Opened1867[2]
Rebuilt1913–1914[3]
ElectrifiedDecember 18, 1930[4]
Passengers
20171,035 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Morristown
toward Hackettstown
 Morristown Line Madison
toward New York or Hoboken
Former services
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Morristown
toward Buffalo
 Main Line Madison
toward Hoboken
Location

Convent Station is a NJ Transit rail station on the Morristown Line. It is located on the grounds of Saint Elizabeth University in Convent Station, Morris Township, New Jersey.[7]

The station first opened in 1867.[2] A small wooden structure was built in 1876 and called Convent Station.[8] The existing station house, built in 1913–1914, has two side platforms, with the station house on the eastbound platform. A ticket office and waiting room is open weekdays. On the westbound track a brick waiting house stands. A former freight station is on the eastbound side. The main driveway into the college is located at a level crossing at the east end of the platform.

Nearby are several office complexes, including the headquarters of Honeywell to the north and Pfizer at Giralda Farms to the east. The Traction Line Recreation Trail, formerly a line of the Morris County Traction Company, runs along the northeastern side of the line.

Station layout

The station has two tracks, each with a low-level side platform.

Ground/
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 1 ←      Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Morristown)
Track 2      Morristown Line toward Hoboken or New York (Madison) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Street level Ticket machine and parking

See also

References

  1. ↑ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
  2. 1 2 Housing Legislation of 1966: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency - United States Senate Eighty-Ninth Congress Second Session on Proposed Housing Legislation for 1966 (Report). 89th United States Congress. 1967. p. 1198. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 98. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.
  4. ↑ "Lackawanna Electric Train Gets Ovations". The Paterson Morning Call. December 19, 1930. p. 34. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ↑ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  7. ↑ "New Jersey Transit". www.njtransit.com.
  8. ↑ Scheireik, Susan (March 14, 1993). "If You're Thinking of Living in: Convent Station". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2019. A small wooden structure was built and named Convent Station in 1876. The sisters built a road to it, now Convent Road, and paid the salary of a station attendant.


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