Hackettstown (NJT station)

Hackettstown
The Hackettstown Station along the Washington Secondary, maintained by Norfolk Southern as viewed from next to the mini-high level platform at the northern end of the platform.
Location	Beatty Street and Valentine Street, Hackettstown, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°51′07″N 74°50′05″W / 40.85194°N 74.83472°W / 40.85194; -74.83472Coordinates: 40°51′07″N 74°50′05″W / 40.85194°N 74.83472°W / 40.85194; -74.83472
Owned by	New Jersey Transit (station) Norfolk Southern (trackage)
Line(s)	Morristown Line   Montclair-Boonton Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	1
Construction
Parking	Hourly and reserved
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	19
History
Opened	1868
Closed	October 1966
Rebuilt	1994
Electrified	No
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	166 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Terminus Montclair-Boonton Line Mount Olive toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Morristown Line Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Port Murray toward Portland or Phillipsburg Old Main Line Mount Olive toward Lake Hopatcong

Hackettstown is a New Jersey Transit station in Hackettstown, New Jersey. The station is located at the intersection of Valentine Street and Beatty Street and is the western terminus of the Morristown Line and the Montclair-Boonton Line, which both provide service to Hoboken Terminal or to Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan via Midtown Direct. Hackettstown Station is the only active New Jersey Transit station in Warren County. The line from Hackettstown – Dover is diesel powered, requiring a transfer at Dover, Montclair State University or Newark Broad Street to an electrified train to New York Penn Station. Proposals exist of an extension of the Montclair-Boonton Line, including an extension to Washington and possibly Phillipsburg further along the Washington Secondary.

Service west of Netcong station began in November 1994, with an extension of the Boonton Line westward along Norfolk Southern's Washington Secondary. The station was opened along with Mount Olive station near Waterloo Village and the International Trade Center in the namesake township. Originally, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) serviced Hackettstown with a large station in downtown Hackettstown for its Old Main alignment. The large wooden station was a Type W-2 station (from DL&W railroad documents) built in 1868. Hackettstown Station was razed in the late 1960s after passenger service on most Erie-Lackawanna Railroad branches terminated in October 1966.