Mountain Lakes station explained
| Mountain Lakes |
| Style: | NJ Transit |
| Address: | 99 Midvale Road, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 07046 |
| Platform: | 1 side platform |
| Tracks: | 1 |
| Passengers: | 17 (average weekday)[1] [2] |
| Pass Year: | 2017 |
| Opened: | November 10, 1912[3] |
| Code: | 31 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[4] |
| Owned: | NJ Transit |
| Zone: | 14[5] |
| Other Services Header: | Former services |
| Other Services Collapsible: | yes |
| Nrhp: | | Embed: | yes | | Mountain Lakes station | | Nrhp Type: | cp | | Nocat: | yes | | Added: | September 7, 2005 | | Partof: | Mountain Lakes Historic District | | Partof Refnum: | 05000963 |
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| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Custom: | | Shape: | none | | Line: | none | | Marker: | rail | | Zoom: | 12 |
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Mountain Lakes is a commuter railroad station in the borough of Mountain Lakes, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The station is on New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line, the last before the line merges with the Morristown Line at Denville station to the west. The station has one low-level side platform, serving a solo track.
History
Railroad service came to the area in 1869, when the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad built the freight-only Boonton Branch via Paterson to bypass the passenger Morris & Essex Railroad. Passenger service was first provided at Fox Hill station, east of U.S. Route 46 in Denville.
In 1912, the DL&W built the Mountain Lakes depot to replace the old Fox Hill station, breaking ground in May and opening on November 10.[6]
At some point, a new Mountain Lakes station was built.
The 1912 depot stands in the parking lot, where it serves as a restaurant, "The Station at Mountain Lakes". The building is on the Morris County Inventory of Historic Sites.[7] It is also part of the Mountain Lakes Historic District, which was created by the New Jersey State Historical Preservation Office on July 22, 2005,[8] and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 2005.
Station layout
Mountain Lakes has one low-level platform.
See also
External links
Notes and References
- 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 .
- News: How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?. Hoboken Patch. 2018-07-18. en.
- News: Mountain Lakes Station Will Open Tomorrow . June 5, 2019 . . November 9, 1912 . 18. Newspapers.com.
- List of Station Numbers . . 1952 . 1.
- Web site: Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables. May 23, 2010. 2010. New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 1–4. September 9, 2010. Newark, New Jersey. July 28, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100728054346/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0030.pdf. dead.
- News: May 16, 1912 . Mountain Lakes Gets New Station . https://web.archive.org/web/20121103193041/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/205731292.html?dids=205731292:205731292&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=May+16,+1912&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=MOUNTAIN+LAKES+GETS+NEW+STATION&pqatl=google . dead . November 3, 2012 . 9 September 2010 . . Christian Science Monitor . . 4.
- Web site: 1. Mountain Lakes Railroad Station & Esplanade. 2010. Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. 9 September 2010. Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. November 25, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101125114730/http://mtnlakes.org/History/walk/walktr01.htm. dead.
- Web site: New Jersey State Historical Preservation Office. April 1, 2010. New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Morris County. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110604123839/http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/morris.pdf. June 4, 2011. July 25, 2010. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. 12.
