Bay Head station explained

Bay Head
Style:NJ Transit
Address:Osborne Avenue
Bay Head, New Jersey 08742
Coordinates:40.0761°N -74.0464°W
Platform:1 side platform
Tracks:2
Parking:Yes
Bicycle:Yes
Passengers:200 (average weekday)[1]
Pass Year:2012
Opened:August 1, 1882
Rebuilt:1976[2]
Electrified:No
Accessible:No
Code:23
Owned:NJ Transit
Zone:23
Former:Bay Head Junction
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:12

Bay Head is a railway station in Bay Head, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The station is served by trains on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, and it is the southern terminus for the line. The rail yard contains 33acres of wetland inside the loop formed by the tracks used to turn around the trains.[3] The rail yard borders Twilight Lake. Parking is free at the Bay Head station although the lot is only about a fourth of the size of the lot at the next station, Point Pleasant Beach, which requires payment.[4] This station is not listed as disabled accessible by NJ Transit. Passengers must use the train stairs to climb up to the cars or descend to street level. There is no ramp or platform to aid the handicapped in boarding. Weekend ridership to the Bay Head station rises during the summer as beachgoing vacationers take the train to the beach. [5] In May 2011, ticket vending machines were installed next to the station building at Bay Head.

Station layout

The station has a low-level side platform serving trains in both directions, most trains also use track one, the doors open at the street.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Quarterly Ridership Trends Analysis . NJ Transit . December 27, 2012 . December 27, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130419042253/http://media.nj.com/bergen_impact/other/1Q2013.pdf . April 19, 2013 . dead .
  2. News: Then and Now. September 26, 2017. The Asbury Park Press. January 21, 1979. 60. Newspapers.com.
  3. http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:DSOB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=10FA84C542E103C8&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=11ECDBF131F44C689BB0EDBA11D99EE0 Bay Head planning to fight state's rail yard plan in court. Asbury Park Press. Nina Rizzo. June 25, 2002.
  4. http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:ASBB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1188D72897A4B430&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=11ECDBF131F44C689BB0EDBA11D99EE0 Ordinance will set train station parking fees.
  5. http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:STLB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=10B161CB804F6C08&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=11ECDBF131F44C689BB0EDBA11D99EE0 'Benny' or not, here they come, Natives grin and share the weekly trip to Shore