Lincoln Park station

NJ Transit rail station

40°55′27″N 74°18′08″W / 40.92417°N 74.30222°W / 40.92417; -74.30222Owned byNJ TransitPlatforms1 side platformTracks2Connections

NJT Bus: 871

Lakeland: 46
(on Route 202, limited Lakeland service)ConstructionAccessibleYesOther informationFare zone10HistoryOpenedSeptember 12, 1870 (freight service)^[1]
December 14, 1870 (passenger service)^[2]Rebuilt1905^[3]Previous namesBeavertownPassengers2017101 (average weekday)^[4]^[5] Services

Preceding station	NJ Transit			Following station
Towaco toward Hackettstown		Montclair-Boonton Line limited service		Mountain View toward New York or Hoboken

Former services

Preceding station	Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad			Following station
Towaco toward Dover		Boonton Branch		Mountain View toward Hoboken

Location

Lincoln Park is a station on NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line in the borough of Lincoln Park, Morris County, New Jersey. The station is located near the Comly Road overpass, accessible from Main Street, Station Road and Park Avenue.

History

Railroad service in Lincoln Park began on September 12, 1870 with the extension of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Boonton Branch as a freight only stop known as Beavertown. Passenger service began on December 14, 1870. The railroad built the current station depot in 1905.^[6]

Station layout

The station has two tracks and one side platform. The station is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

It features a parking lot on both sides, and a waiting room with a bathroom. The station also has a pedestrian crossing with two railroad crossing signs that each have two yellow lights which always blink. The station has two tracks that run through, although only one of those tracks are used for passenger service. Lincoln Park has a roughly 1 mile (1.6 km)-long siding that runs right through the station that is dispatcher controlled. It was formerly used for meets before midday service was discontinued, and no longer sees service by revenue trains.

The station is only served on weekdays.

Bibliography

Lyon, Isaac S. (1873). Historical Discourse on Boonton, Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the Evenings of September 21 and 28, and October 5, 1867. Newark, New Jersey: The Daily Journal Office. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
Yanosey, Robert J. (2007). Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color). Vol. 1: Hoboken to Dover. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. ISBN 9781582482149.

References

^ Arch, Brad (January 1982). "The Morris and Essex Railroad" (PDF). Journal of New Jersey Postal History Society. X (1): 4–8. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
^ Lyon 1873, p. 55.
^ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 748. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
^ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
^ Yanosey 2007, p. 118.