Roselle Park
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The Roselle Park station from the platform. The station depot is in the parking lot below.
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Location | 24 West Lincoln Avenue at Chestnut Street, Roselle Park, NJ, 07204 |
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Coordinates | 40°40′02″N 74°16′00″W / 40.6672°N 74.2666°WCoordinates: 40°40′02″N 74°16′00″W / 40.6672°N 74.2666°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Norfolk Southern Railway | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | NJT Bus: 94 and 113(S) | ||||||||||
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Fare zone | 6 | ||||||||||
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Opened | April 30, 1967 | ||||||||||
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Passengers (2012) | 845 (average weekday) | ||||||||||
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Roselle Park is a New Jersey Transit railroad station in Roselle Park, New Jersey. Located on the Conrail Lehigh Line which is owned by Conrail Shared Assets Operations on West Lincoln Avenue between Chestnut Street and Locust Street, it is served by Raritan Valley Line trains that travel between Newark Penn Station and Raritan. There is also limited service to High Bridge and New York Penn Station and one weekday morning train to Hoboken Terminal.
The station is located at milepost 16.0 on the Conrail Lehigh Line. This is part of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad main line, built by LV subsidiary Newark & Roselle Railway. The second station to stand on the property, it was built in 1967 during the construction of the Aldene Plan. The Aldene Plan was a joint project between the railroads, New Jersey Department of Transportation, and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which elevated trackage above ground level to eliminate grade crossings and rerouted Central Railroad of New Jersey trains (one of NJ Transit's predecessor railroads) to Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey rather than the CNJ's aging Jersey City terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey.