Upper Montclair (Erie Railroad station)

Upper Montclair
The Upper Montclair train station in April 2014. The new station, rebuilt from the 2006 fire, is visible on the right side of the platforms.
Location	275 Bellevue Avenue Upper Montclair, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Montclair-Boonton Line
Platforms	2 low level side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 28 DeCamp: 66
Construction
Parking	111 spots in 2 lots
Bicycle facilities	Parking racks
Disabled access	No
Other information
Station code	1741 (Erie Railroad)
Fare zone	5
History
Opened	1873
Rebuilt	1892, 2010
Electrified	September 30, 2002
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	520 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Mountain Avenue toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line Watchung Avenue toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Preceding station   Erie Railroad   Following station Watchung Avenue toward Pavonia Terminal New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad Mountain Avenue toward Sterling Forest
Upper Montclair Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Porte Cochere of the station house, which burned down except this part
Area	0.5 acres (0.2 ha)
Built	1892
Architect	Thomas C. Veale
Architectural style	Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002673
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

Upper Montclair is a New Jersey Transit station in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, a CDP of Montclair, New Jersey. The station is part of the Montclair-Boonton Line. The station is located between two grade level crossings on Bellevue Avenue and Lorraine Avenue, and between North Mountain Avenue and Upper Montclair Plaza parallel to the railroad, and is within steps of the Upper Montclair Business District. The station is at mile point 13.7 on the Boonton Line. Closing the grade crossing of Lorraine Avenue is being considered for safety reasons.

Upper Montclair is the fourth of six stops in Montclair the train makes coming northbound on the line, and the third as one comes southbound. It is 9 stations away from New York, and 8 from Hoboken. A stream, Toney's Brook has its source just to the northwest of the station and separates the northbound platform from the parking lots on either side of the tracks. Across the street from the station is Anderson Park.

The original station was a small building, built by the Montclair Railway when the Upper Montclair area was still rural. It was acquired by the Erie Railroad and rebuilt in 1892. In 2006, the 1892 station building was damaged in a fire, but the platform survived and was able to remain in service. In 2009 the station was rebuilt. The new building was designed to resemble the original design and incorporate the existing porte-cochere which had survived the fire, but will be larger. The building will have 18-foot-high vaulted ceilings and travertine marble floors. During reconstruction, a tent was used as a temporary shelter on the eastbound platform. On the westbound platform there was a shelter, but now it is gone except for its columns. A former freight house is across Lorraine Avenue from the station.

In 2010, the station was fully restored and as before the fire, houses a restaurant inside. According to the developer, initially the project was expected to cost $1 million, but in the end it came in closer to $2 million.