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Newark Broad Street

Newark Broad Street
Broad St Sta Newark tower jeh.jpg
Location Lackawanna Avenue and Broad Street
Coordinates 40°44′51″N 74°10′19″W / 40.74750°N 74.17194°W / 40.74750; -74.17194
Owned by New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
Platforms Commuter rail: 1 island, 1 side
Light rail: 1 island
Tracks 3 (Commuter Rail)
2 (Light rail)
Connections NJT Bus NJT Bus: 11, 13, 27, 28, 29, 30, 41, 72, 76, 78, and 108
Construction
Platform levels 2
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 2 (commuter rail only)
History
Opened 19 November 1836
Rebuilt 1903, 2008
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 2,442 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJT logo.svg NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward Gladstone
Gladstone Branch
Terminus
toward Hackettstown
Montclair-Boonton Line
Terminus
toward Hackettstown
Morristown Line
Terminus
Newark Light Rail
Broad Street – Newark Penn Terminus
One-way operation
  Former services  
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
toward Buffalo
Main Line
Terminus
toward Gladstone
Gladstone Branch
toward Montclair
Montclair Branch
toward Hoboken
Newark Broad Street Station
Newark Broad Street station is located in Essex County, New Jersey
Newark Broad Street station
Location Broad and University Sts., Newark, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°44′50″N 74°10′20″W / 40.74722°N 74.17222°W / 40.74722; -74.17222Coordinates: 40°44′50″N 74°10′20″W / 40.74722°N 74.17222°W / 40.74722; -74.17222
Area 1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built 1901
Architect Frank J. Nies
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Renaissance
MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference # 84002662
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984

Newark Broad Street is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail and light rail station at 25 University Avenue in Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1901-03 on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line from Hoboken to Denville, Scranton and Buffalo, the station's historic architecture includes an elegant clock tower and a brick and stone façade on the station's main building.

Newark Broad Street opened on 19 November 1836 at the east end of the opening segment of the Morris and Essex Railroad to Orange; for the first couple of decades trains east of Newark ran over the New Jersey Rail Road to Jersey City. The Newark Drawbridge connecting to the station and crossing the Passaic River to the east was opened in 1903. A number of western expansions were built, and Hoboken Terminal, the current eastern end of the line, opened in 1907. In 1945, the Morris and Essex Railroad officially merged into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (its identity had been largely lost years before). DL&W merged with the Erie Railroad in 1960 to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, which was absorbed by Conrail in 1976; New Jersey Transit has operated all passenger service since 1983.


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