Maplewood station

Maplewood
Maplewood
	Maplewood station in March 2015.
General information
Location	145 Dunnell Road (at Maplewood Avenue), Maplewood, New Jersey 07040
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Construction
Bicycle facilities	Lockers and racks
Other information
Fare zone	6
History
Opened	September 17, 1837 (preliminary trip); September 28, 1837 (regular service)
Rebuilt	1859–1860; 1901–January 1902
Electrified	December 18, 1930
Passengers
2017	3,488 (average weekday)
Services
Former services
Location
Location

40°43′52″N 74°16′32″W / 40.73111°N 74.27556°W / 40.73111; -74.27556

Maplewood is a train station that serves New Jersey Transit's Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch (commonly known as the Morris and Essex Lines) in the township of Maplewood, Essex County, New Jersey. Located in "The Village" in Maplewood at 145 Dunnell Road (near the intersection with Maplewood Avenue), the station services trains from New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal to the east along with trains to Summit, Dover, Hackettstown and Gladstone to the west.

History

Service in Maplewood began on September 28, 1837 with the opening of the Morris and Essex Railroad. At that time, service in then-Jefferson Village was limited to a flag stop at the Montgomery–Ogden House on Jefferson Street, a house built in the 18th century. Daniel Beach and his wife bought the property and the kitchen served as the waiting room for trains to stop. Known only as the "Stone House" stop,^[4] the name Maplewood was not attached until c. 1860. The Montgomery–Ogden House served as the station until 1859,^[4] when a new depot was built by a land speculator at Baker Street and Maplewood Avenue.^[5]

The 1860 depot was replaced by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1901 with the current structure. Construction finished in January 1902.^[7]

Station layout

Parking is available in a small lot just to the east of the station on the eastbound side (Lot 1) and a lot one block west of the station on the westbound side (Lot 4). There are also several signed areas along nearby streets, referred to as Lots 2 and 3.

Parking is restricted to Maplewood residents with permits from 6:00–9:00 a.m. on weekdays or non-permit holders for a $3 fee. At all other times, parking is free of charge, but overnight parking is not allowed. Bicycle lockers are also provided.

The station has two low-level platforms connected by a tunnel. Not all trains stop at this station, and trains may pass through the station on any track.

Bibliography

Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
Walker, Herbert T. (1902). "Early History of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and it's Locomotives - Part 2: The Morris and Essex Railroad". Railroad Gazette. 34. Retrieved April 3, 2020.

References

^ "Morris and Essex is Seventy-Nine Years Old". The Madison Eagle. June 16, 1916. p. 10. Retrieved April 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Walker 1902, p. 409.
^ Douglass 1912, p. 339.
^ ^a ^b ^c Maplewood Historic Preservation Commission - Designation Report for Historic Landmark (PDF) (Report). Maplewood Historic Preservation Commission. March 2010. p. 4. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Historic Preservation Plan Element for the Master Plan of the Township of Maplewood (PDF). The Historic Preservation Commission of the Township of Maplewood (Report). The Planning Board of the Township of Maplewood. November 11, 2008. pp. 16, 24. Retrieved April 4, 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 90. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.
^ ^a ^b "Briefs". The Madison Eagle. January 10, 1902. p. 5. Retrieved January 16, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Lackawanna Electric Train Gets Ovations". The Paterson Morning Call. December 19, 1930. p. 34. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.