Glen Ridge station

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.

Glen Ridge
Glen Ridge station
General information
Location224 Ridgewood Avenue (CR 653), Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Coordinates40.8002°N 74.2043°W / 40.8002; -74.2043
Owned byNew Jersey Transit
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsNJT Bus NJT Bus: 11, 28, and 29
(all buses on Bloomfield Avenue)
Other information
Station code603 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1]
Fare zone4
History
Opened1860[2]
Rebuilt1872;[2] 1887[2]
ElectrifiedSeptember 3, 1930[3]
Previous namesRidgewood[4]
Passengers
20171,410 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Bay Street
toward Hackettstown
 Montclair-Boonton Line Bloomfield
toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Bay Street
Terminus
 Montclair Branch Bloomfield
toward Hoboken
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Montclair
Terminus
 Montclair Branch Bloomfield
toward Hoboken

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.[2]

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.[7]

Station layout

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

G Street level Station building and ticket machine
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Outbound ←      Montclair-Boonton Line toward Bay Street, Montclair University or Hackettstown (Bay Street)
Inbound ←      Montclair-Boonton Line toward Hoboken or New York (Bloomfield) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

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.

See also

References
  1. List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 2.
  2. "Transportation". Glen Ridge Historical Society. Retrieved September 27, 2018.
  3. "D.L.&W. Electric Train Hoboken to Montclair". The Madison Eagle. September 5, 1930. p. 6. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  4. Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 761. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
  5. "Quarterly Ridership Trends Analysis" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  6. "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  7. "New Jersey and National Register Listings". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
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