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Union station (NJT)

Union
Union NJ Transit Station.JPG
Union Station sign, hanging from entryway
Location Union, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°41′0″N 74°14′19″W / 40.68333°N 74.23861°W / 40.68333; -74.23861Coordinates: 40°41′0″N 74°14′19″W / 40.68333°N 74.23861°W / 40.68333; -74.23861
Owned by New Jersey Transit (Structure) / Norfolk Southern Railway (Land)
Line(s)
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Connections NJT Bus NJT Bus: 26 and 52
Construction
Platform levels 1
Parking Yes
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Fare zone 5
History
Opened 2003
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 1,355 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJT logo.svg NJ Transit Rail   Following station
toward High Bridge
Raritan Valley Line

Union Station is a New Jersey Transit railroad station in Union County, New Jersey. Located on the Conrail Lehigh Line, Union is served by Raritan Valley Line trains that travel between Newark Penn Station and Raritan. There is also limited service to and from High Bridge and New York Penn Station and one morning train to Hoboken Terminal. The physical structures of the station are owned by New Jersey Transit, however the land remains property of Norfolk Southern Railway, in accordance with the 1999 buyout of Consolidated Rail Corporation by Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Corporation.

The station is located at milepost 14.6 on the Conrail Lehigh Line. This is part of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad main line, built by LV subsidiary Newark & Roselle Railway. The Township of Union had been served until the 1940s by Townley station, 0.5 miles to the east at milepost 14.1. With the station demolished by the Lehigh Valley Railroad in the 1940s, officials decided not to add a stop in 1967 during the Aldene Plan. The project was a joint program 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 to Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey.[2]


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