Andover (NJT station)

Andover
Looking west to the Pequest Fill, the proposed Andover Station would serve the restored Lackawanna Cut-Off line.
Location	Roseville Road Andover Township, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°58′53″N 74°43′49″W / 40.98139°N 74.73028°W / 40.98139; -74.73028Coordinates: 40°58′53″N 74°43′49″W / 40.98139°N 74.73028°W / 40.98139; -74.73028
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	None
Platforms	1 side platform (planned)
Tracks	0 (1 planned)
Construction
Parking	125 spaces (planned)
Other information
Fare zone	19
History
Opened	2018 (planned)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Terminus Montclair-Boonton Line Lackawanna Cut-Off (proposed) Lake Hopatcong toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Morristown Line Lackawanna Cut-Off (proposed) Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Greendell toward Buffalo Main Line Via the Lackawanna Cut-off Wharton toward Hoboken

Andover is a planned New Jersey Transit passenger railroad station in Andover Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, providing service on its Lackawanna Cut-Off line. The line, which is under construction, is anticipated to begin rail service in late 2018. The station will be built at a site on Andover's Roseville Road, approximately 1.1 miles (1.8 km) from U.S. Route 206 and about 0.9 miles (1.5 km) from County Route 517. On the rail line, it will be located about 7.3 miles (11.7 km) west of Port Morris Junction at milepost 53.0.

The Andover station will be the terminus of the line but plans exist for extending the Lackawanna Cut-Off line west of Andover. Anticipated construction at the site includes a station and platform with a car park featuring 125 parking spaces (increased from the initially planned 65 spaces). Preparation to restore trackage between Port Morris and Andover was originally slated to begin in 2010 but was delayed until early 2011 due to a dispute over the exact location of the Andover Station area. Final completion of the track construction is awaiting final permitting and approval and service is not expected to start until late 2018.

From 1908 to 1911, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) built a level-graded 28.5-mile (45.9 km) railroad line. This route, known as the Lackawanna Cut-Off, ran west from Port Morris Junction in Roxbury Township near the south end of Lake Hopatcong in northwestern New Jersey (approximately 45 miles (72 km) west-northwest of New York City) and to Slateford Junction near the Delaware Water Gap in northeastern Pennsylvania. With its rural landscape, tall fills, deep rock cuts, and two large viaducts, the line became renowned as a scenic highlight of the railroad's main line between Hoboken, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. Through the use of fewer and less-sharp curves, no steep hills, and no grade crossings, the route was faster and 11 miles (18 kilometres) shorter than the Lackawanna Old Road, the rail line it replaced. The DL&W constructed structures on the new line of reinforced concrete, and the roadbed itself required the movement of millions of tons of fill material using techniques similar to those on the Panama Canal.