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Brick Church (NJT station)

Brick Church
BRICK CHURCH STATION, EAST ORANGE, ESSEX COUNTY.jpg
Line(s)
Platforms 1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks 3
Connections NJT Bus NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, 94, and 97
Intercity Bus Community Coach: 77
Local Transit ONE Bus: 24
Other information
Fare zone 4
History
Opened 19 November 1836
Rebuilt 1923
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 1,610 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJT logo.svg NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Gladstone
Gladstone Branch
toward Hackettstown
Morristown Line
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
toward Buffalo
Main Line
toward Hoboken
Brick Church Station
Brick Church station is located in Essex County, New Jersey
Brick Church station
Location Brick Church Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°45′56″N 74°13′10″W / 40.76556°N 74.21944°W / 40.76556; -74.21944Coordinates: 40°45′56″N 74°13′10″W / 40.76556°N 74.21944°W / 40.76556; -74.21944
Area 2 acres (0.8 ha)
Built 1921
Architect Nies, F.J.
Architectural style Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference # 84002636
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984

Brick Church is a New Jersey Transit station in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morris and Essex Line. Service is available from this station east to Hoboken Terminal, New York Penn Station and west to Dover and Hackettstown.

There are two transit lines that service this station which are the Morris & Essex Gladstone and Morris & Essex Morristown. There are 103 trains that come to the station which includes 19 trains during peak hours. During the FY2012, the average weekday board were about 1,610. This stop was ranked #24 out of 148 commuter rail stations. At this location there are available commuter parking and bike racks for passenger use.

The brick church itself, originally the Second Presbyterian Church of Orange, can be seen north of the station. The church building dates from 1878, and Brick Church station was probably established not long after judging by the architectural style of the original station building. The present station building was opened in 1923 when the track grade was raised above street level.

Brick Church was the station stop for "the Oranges" made by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's through trains to Buffalo and the west. Its priority continues to this day under New Jersey Transit, Brick Church having more train service than either Orange or East Orange.

The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984, listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.


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