Mountain Lakes station
Mountain Lakes | |||||||||||||
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 The Mountain Lakes station facing the Denville-bound direction. The 1912-built depot (now a restaurant) is visible in the distance. | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | 99 Midvale Road, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 07046 | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°53′09″N 74°26′01″W / 40.8859°N 74.4336°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | 31 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 14[2] | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | November 10, 1912[3] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 17 (average weekday)[4][5] | ||||||||||||
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Mountain Lakes station | |||||||||||||
 The station depot from Midvale Road in September 2014. | |||||||||||||
| Part of | Mountain Lakes Historic District (ID05000963[6]) | ||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | September 7, 2005 | ||||||||||||
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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
[edit]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.[citation needed] 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.[7]
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.[8] 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,[9] and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 2005.
Station layout
[edit]Mountain Lakes has one low-level platform.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 1.
- ^ "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables" (PDF) (May 23, 2010 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 2010. pp. 1–4. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
- ^ "Mountain Lakes Station Will Open Tomorrow". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 9, 1912. p. 18. Retrieved June 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Mountain Lakes Gets New Station". Christian Science Monitor. Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Monitor. May 16, 1912. p. 4. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
- ^ "1. Mountain Lakes Railroad Station & Esplanade". Mountain Lakes, New Jersey: Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. 2010. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
- ^ New Jersey State Historical Preservation Office (April 1, 2010). "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Morris County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
External links
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Media related to Mountain Lakes (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons
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