Morristown (NJT station)

Morristown
File:Train Station, Morristown, New Jersey (8537564191).jpg The station building in 2012.
Location	122 Morris St. Morristown, NJ 07960
Line(s)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 880 Community Coach: 77
Construction
Parking	455 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	14
History
Opened	November 3, 1913
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	1,935 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Morris Plains toward Hackettstown Morristown Line Convent Station toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Morris Plains toward Buffalo Main Line Convent Station toward Hoboken
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station (a.k.a. Morristown Railroad Station)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Coordinates
NRHP Reference #	80002514
Added to NRHP	1980

Morristown is a New Jersey Transit rail station on the Morristown Line, located in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. It serves an average of 1,800 passengers on a typical weekday. Construction of the historic station began in 1912 and the facility opened November 3, 1913. A station agent and waiting room are available seven days a week. The station's interior was featured in Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" video (1984). Just west of the station, at Baker Interlocking the Morristown & Erie Railway branches off the NJT line. The M&E's offices and shop are here.

Morristown received ADA mini-high level platforms in 2005 to make the station handicapped accessible. The eastbound ramp is near Morris Street and the westbound ramp is just west of the old freight house. Morristown station has 455 parking spaces spread across three different lots near the station.

History

A predecessor station was the terminus of the Morris and Essex Railroad, using the same railbed, constructed in 1835.

Ultimately the line extended to the east to the Hudson River connecting to New York by Ferry.

The line was previously used by a series of Lackawanna and Erie Lackawanna railway companies from the 1930s until the 1960. The 1913-built Delaware, Lackawanna and Western station house was designed by Frank J. Nies and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• NJT rail station information page for Morristown
• DepartureVision real time train information for Morristown
• Morris and Essex Line schedule (Morristown Line & Gladstone Branch)
• Morris Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Lafayette Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View