Roselle Park station

Roselle Park
The Roselle Park station from the platform. The station depot is in the parking lot below.
Location	24 West Lincoln Avenue at Chestnut Street, Roselle Park, NJ, 07204
Coordinates	40°40′02″N 74°16′00″W / 40.6672°N 74.2666°W / 40.6672; -74.2666Coordinates: 40°40′02″N 74°16′00″W / 40.6672°N 74.2666°W / 40.6672; -74.2666
Owned by	Norfolk Southern Railway
Line(s)	Raritan Valley Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 94 and 113(S)
Other information
Fare zone	7
History
Opened	April 30, 1967
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	845 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Cranford toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Union toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station

Roselle Park is a New Jersey Transit railroad station in Roselle Park, New Jersey. Located on Conrail's Lehigh Line 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 the former Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline, built in 1832 by LV subsidiary Newark & Roselle Railway. The second station to stand on the property, it was built in 1967 during the Aldene Plan. The project was a joint project between the railroads, NJDOT, and 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.

When bankruptcy struck the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the CNJ was forced to fold into the Consolidated Rail Corporation on April 1, 1976. On that date, the New Jersey Department of Transportation took over commuter rail operations. In 1981 the State of New Jersey created New Jersey Transit to oversee all commuter operations, rail and bus, in the state. Since then, NJTransit has continued to operate and improve services on the Raritan Valley Line.