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New Brunswick (NJT station)

New Brunswick
New Brunswick 1903 station depot.JPG
The 1903 station building as seen from Albany Street
Location French and Albany Streets Circle sign 27.svg at Easton Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
United States
Owned by NJT
Line(s) Northeast Corridor
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 4
Connections NJT Bus NJT Bus: 810, 811, 813, 815, 818
Rutgers Campus Buses
Brunsquick Shuttles
DASH 1 & 2
Suburban Trails: Line 100, Dunellen local
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code NBK
Fare zone 14
History
Opened 1903
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 4,976 (average weekday) (NJT)
Passengers (FY 2015) 8,365 Decrease 6% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak   Following station
toward Harrisburg
Keystone Service
Northeast Regional
toward Savannah
Palmetto
NJT logo.svg NJ Transit Rail
toward Trenton
Northeast Corridor Line
  Former services  
Pennsylvania Railroad
toward Chicago
Main Line
New Brunswick Station
New Brunswick station is located in Middlesex County, New Jersey
New Brunswick station
New Brunswick station is located in New Jersey
New Brunswick station
New Brunswick station is located in the US
New Brunswick station
Coordinates 40°29′47″N 74°26′47″W / 40.49639°N 74.44639°W / 40.49639; -74.44639Coordinates: 40°29′47″N 74°26′47″W / 40.49639°N 74.44639°W / 40.49639; -74.44639
Area 0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built 1903 (1903)
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference # 84002732
NJRHP # 1875
Significant dates
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984
Designated NJRHP March 17, 1984

New Brunswick station is a railroad station in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It serves Amtrak and NJ Transit trains on the Northeast Corridor. The station at the intersection of Easton Avenue and French and Albany Streets near the Old Queens campus of Rutgers University.

Train service to New Brunswick was begun by the New Jersey Railroad, northbound in 1838 and southbound in 1839. Its successor, Pennsylvania Railroad, built the current station in 1903 when the tracks were raised above street level. Service was eventually taken over by Penn Central and then Amtrak and New Jersey Transit. In 2005, the Clocker trains, a popular commuter service serving the station, were transferred to NJT. In October 2015 the southbound Palmetto began stopping here.

The depot was designed in the Colonial Revival style and includes walls of light brown brick, hipped roof with gabled dormers and a deep cornice with dentil molding at its base. Brick quoins at the corners of the building convey an impression of strength and solidity. Windows display a popular Georgian Revival pattern of 9-over-1. Sills are incorporated into a stone belt course that wraps around the building, while lintels are embellished with prominent keystones.

The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.

In 2005 the station was designated the core of the New Brunswick transit village, a smart growth initiative to promote transit-oriented development which can include government incentives to encourage compact, higher density, mixed-use development within walking distance of the station.


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