Mountain Station (NJT station)

Mountain Station
Mountain Station facing eastbound from the New York-bound platform in December 2014.
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Gladstone Branch   Morristown Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 92 (one block east on Scotland Rd.)
Other information
Fare zone	5
History
Rebuilt	1870s, 1914–1915
Previous names	Montrose
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	321 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station South Orange toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Highland Avenue toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station South Orange toward Hackettstown Morristown Line Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad South Orange toward Buffalo Main Line Highland Avenue toward Hoboken
Mountain Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The eastbound station depot at Mountain station, seen in December 2014 from Vose Street.
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Location	449 Vose Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°45′17″N 74°15′13″W / 40.75472°N 74.25361°W / 40.75472; -74.25361Coordinates: 40°45′17″N 74°15′13″W / 40.75472°N 74.25361°W / 40.75472; -74.25361
Area	2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
Built	1915
Architect	Nies,Frank J.
Architectural style	Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002656
Added to NRHP	September 29, 1984

Mountain Station is a New Jersey Transit station in South Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morris and Essex (formerly Erie Lackawanna Morristown Line). The station, built in 1915, has been listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.

The station is somewhat unusual in that when the Lackawanna Railroad rebuilt the Morristown Line during the 1910s and 1920s, to eliminate grade crossings between Newark and Millburn, Mountain Station was the only location at which the elevation of the railroad's roadbed was not changed. As a result, the grade crossing of Montrose Avenue at the eastbound end of the station was eliminated and the roadway was raised onto a bridge. At the westbound end of the station, the Mountain House Road crossing was eliminated entirely and a pedestrian walkway was built. The walkway was removed during the late 1970s as part of the re-electrification project for the line.

At present, as in the past, most trains that stop here proceed onto, or have originated in, Hoboken. Most Midtown Direct trains into New York City bypass Mountain Station, but a large number do stop at the main station in South Orange, which is less than a mile to the south (timetable west). Midtown Direct trains can be accessed from Mountain Station by transferring at an intermediate station.