Rahway station

40°36′23″N 74°16′34″W / 40.6065°N 74.276°W / 40.6065; -74.276Owned byNew Jersey TransitLine(s)Amtrak Northeast CorridorPlatforms1 side platform, 1 island platformTracks6Connections NJ Transit Bus: 48ConstructionParkingYesBicycle facilitiesYesAccessibleYesOther informationFare zone8^[1]HistoryOpenedJanuary 1, 1836^[2]Rebuilt1885^[3]
November 1911^[4]–July 26, 1913^[5]
March 1971^[6]–August 28, 1975^[7]
January 1996–August 1998^[8]ElectrifiedDecember 8, 1932^[9]Key datesNovember 12, 1884Station depot burns^[3]November 1975Amtrak service discontinued^[10]Passengers20123,236 (average weekday)^[11] Services

Preceding station	NJ Transit			Following station
Metropark toward Trenton		Northeast Corridor Line		Linden toward New York
Avenel toward Bay Head		North Jersey Coast Line		Linden toward New York or Hoboken

Former services

Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Metropark toward Trenton Northeast Corridor Line North Rahway (closed 1993) toward New York Avenel toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line North Rahway (closed 1993) toward New York or Hoboken 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

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.^[12][10] 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)

References

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