Rahway station

Rahway
Rahway station in August 2014
General information
Location	Milton Avenue, between Irving & Broad Streets Rahway, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.6065°N 74.276°W / 40.6065; -74.276
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	6
Connections	NJ Transit Bus: 48
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	8
History
Opened	January 1, 1836
Rebuilt	1885 November 1911–July 26, 1913 March 1971–August 28, 1975 January 1996–August 1998
Electrified	December 8, 1932
Key dates
November 12, 1884	Station depot burns
November 1975	Amtrak service discontinued
Passengers
2012	3,236 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Metropark toward Trenton Northeast Corridor Line Linden toward New York Penn Station Avenel toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line
Former services Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Metropark toward Trenton Northeast Corridor Line North Rahway (closed 1993) toward New York Penn Station Avenel toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Metuchen toward Chicago Main Line Linden toward New York or Exchange Place Perth Amboy Junction toward New Brunswick New Brunswick Line Scott Avenue toward New York or Exchange Place Avenel toward Perth Amboy Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Branch Terminus
Location

Rahway station is an NJ Transit train station in Rahway, New Jersey that is located 20.7 miles southwest of New York Penn Station, with service on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines.

History

The station first opened on January 1, 1836. The station is located in downtown Rahway on an embankment completed in 1913, with bridges over Milton Avenue and Irving and Cherry Streets. The present station was built by New Jersey Transit at a cost of $16 million and opened in early 1999. It replaced a passenger station built by the Penn Central and the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1974, which was an Amtrak stop from May 1971–November 1975. The City of Rahway completed a $600,000 public plaza in front of the station in 2001.

Another station in the city, North Rahway, previously existed at Scott Avenue, near the Merck facility, but was closed and demolished in 1993.

Platform layout

Rahway is just northeast of the Perth Amboy Junction, where the Northeast Corridor and the North Jersey Coast lines split at Union Tower, so Rahway is one of several transfer stations on NJ Transit. The station has an island platform for the Trenton and Long Branch-bound side of the station. The New York City-bound platform is a side platform more typical of the Northeast Corridor. Service bound for Long Branch and other points on the North Jersey Coast Line use one side of this island platform just east of the junction, as these trains would not be able to switch off of the main track in time to switch onto tracks at the Junction towards the Jersey Shore.

Amtrak's Northeast Corridor services bypass the station via the inner tracks.

Bibliography

• Pennsylvania Railroad (March 9, 1886). Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to the Stockholders Presented at the Meeting Held March 9th, 1886. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Retrieved April 19, 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

Media related to Rahway station at Wikimedia Commons

• Irving Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Milton Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Northeast Corridor timetable – NJ Transit