Convent Station (NJ Transit) explained

Convent Station
Style:NJ Transit
Style2:NJ Transit BOF
Address:Convent Road at Old Turnpike Road
Borough:Morris Township, New Jersey
Owned:New Jersey Transit
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Connections: NJ Transit Bus:
Parking:580 spaces, 9 accessible spaces
Bicycle:Yes
Accessible:No
Passengers:1,035 (average weekday)[1] [2]
Pass Year:2017
Opened:1867[3]
Rebuilt:1913 - 1914
Electrified:December 18, 1930[4]
Code:428 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[5]
Zone:12
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:13

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, New Jersey.[6]

The station first opened in 1867. A small wooden structure was built in 1876 and called Convent Station.[7] 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.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS . New Jersey Transit . January 4, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130419042253/http://media.nj.com/bergen_impact/other/1Q2013.pdf . April 19, 2013 . dead .
  2. News: Kiefer. Eric. February 21, 2018. How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?. Hoboken Patch. 2018-07-18. en.
  3. 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. April 21, 2020. 89th United States Congress. 1967. 1198.
  4. News: Lackawanna Electric Train Gets Ovations . January 31, 2021 . The Paterson Morning Call . December 19, 1930 . 34. Newspapers.com.
  5. List of Station Numbers . . 1952 . 2.
  6. Web site: New Jersey Transit. www.njtransit.com.
  7. Web site: Scheireik . Susan . If You're Thinking of Living in: Convent Station . The New York Times . March 14, 1993 . 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. .