Glen Ridge station explained

Glen Ridge
Style:NJ Transit
Style2:NJ Transit BOF
Coordinates:40.8002°N -74.2043°W
Other: NJT Bus: 11, 28, and 29
(all buses on Bloomfield Avenue)
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Passengers:1,410 (average weekday)[1] [2]
Pass Year:2017
Opened:1860[3]
Rebuilt:1872; 1887
Electrified:September 3, 1930[4]
Code:603 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[5]
Zone:4
Former:Ridgewood
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:12

Glen Ridge is a New Jersey Transit station at the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue in Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. Service through Glen Ridge comes from Hoboken Terminal and New York Penn Station and goes through to one of four termini, Bay Street (on weekends), Montclair State University, Dover and Hackettstown. The station depot is on-grade level with Ridgewood Avenue, with the platform and tracks below street-level.

History

Railroad service through Glen Ridge began in 1860 with the construction of a platform on the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad at Prospect Street (modern-day Ridgewood Avenue) known as Ridgewood. The tracks were built eight years prior and no service in the area began until a nearby flag stop opened for a private entrepreneur in 1857. The railroad built a new wooden station at Ridgewood Avenue in 1872, replacing that in 1887.

The platforms at Glen Ridge, along with the stations at Bloomfield and Watsessing Avenue stations along the Montclair Branch were all built in 1912 during a grade separation program by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. The Glen Ridge station, like the Watsessing Avenue station, was set below street level. It is a contributing property to the Glen Ridge Historic District and the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[6]

Station layout

Glen Ridge's low-level side platforms are not accessible.

In popular culture

Glen Ridge the site of the train station scene in the 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile that starred Julia Roberts. It also appeared in Far From Heaven.

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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. July 18, 2018. en.
  3. Web site: Transportation . Glen Ridge Historical Society . September 27, 2018.
  4. News: D.L.&W. Electric Train Hoboken to Montclair . January 31, 2021 . The Madison Eagle . September 5, 1930 . 6. Newspapers.com.
  5. List of Station Numbers . . 1952 . 2 .
  6. Web site: New Jersey and National Register Listings . New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office . November 22, 2015.