Lyons (NJT station)

Lyons
The station at Lyons in 2010. The station depot, built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, is seen behind the canopy.
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Gladstone Branch
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Lakeland: 78
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	14
History
Opened	1931
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	452 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Basking Ridge toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Millington toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Basking Ridge toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Millington toward Hoboken
Lyons Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Lyons Road, Lyons, New Jersey, USA
Coordinates	40°41′5.2″N 74°32′58.3″W / 40.684778°N 74.549528°W / 40.684778; -74.549528Coordinates: 40°41′5.2″N 74°32′58.3″W / 40.684778°N 74.549528°W / 40.684778; -74.549528
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1931 (1931)
Architectural style	Tudor Revival, Mission/spanish Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002805
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

Lyons is a New Jersey Transit station in Basking Ridge, New Jersey along the Gladstone Branch of the Morris & Essex Lines. The station serves south Basking Ridge as well as the Hills and Liberty Corner. Two railroad crossings are located on each side of the station for the far side parking. Also, unlike many of the other stations in this area of the line, this station is one of the only ones that are handicap accessible. On the east end of station is a mini-high platform and ramp for disabled passengers. Outside the right grade crossing of station is a bridge on which trains pass over South Finley Avenue.

The single station building, on the north side of the single track, is of brick construction and was built 1931 to coincide with electrification and to serve the new VA Medical Center in Lyons (opened in 1930). A brass ornamental arch stands on the westernmost part of the platform. Permit parking is available on the station side of the tracks, as well as a large lot for permit and daily parking on the far side of the track. Lyons station was the second-to-last station depot built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, behind the station at Syracuse, New York in 1941.

The station building was listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on March 17, 1984 and in National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1984 as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.