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Union | ||||||||||||||
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 Union station in March 2010 | ||||||||||||||
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| Location | Green Lane and Morris Avenue (NJ 82),Union, New Jersey | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°41′0″N74°14′19″W / 40.68333°N 74.23861°W /40.68333; -74.23861 | |||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit (station),Conrail Shared Assets Operations (track) | |||||||||||||
| Line | Lehigh Line | |||||||||||||
| Distance | 15.3 miles (24.6 km) fromNew York Penn Station[1] | |||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | |||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Connections | NJ Transit Bus:26,52 | |||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Accessible | yes | |||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 5[2] | |||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | April 28, 2003[3] | |||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 1,021 (average weekday)[4] | |||||||||||||
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Union is aNJ Transit railroad station inUnion, New Jersey. Located on theConrail Lehigh Line, Union is served byRaritan Valley Line trains that travel betweenNewark Penn Station andRaritan. There is also limited service to and fromHigh Bridge andNew York Penn Station and one morning train toHoboken Terminal. The physical structures of the station are owned by NJ Transit; however, the land remains the property ofConrail Shared Assets Operations, which is in turn owned byNorfolk Southern Railway andCSX Corporation.
TheLehigh Valley Railroad, through its subsidiary theNewark and Roselle Railway, opened a line betweenRoselle andNewark in 1891.[5] Serving Union Township wasTownley station, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the current station site. Townley was one of several stations that closed after the Lehigh Valley Railroad ended itscommuter service in 1948.[6] All passenger service on the Lehigh Valley Railroad ended in 1961.[7]
Passenger service over the Lehigh Valley Railroad returned in 1967 with theAldene Plan. A joint project between the Lehigh Valley Railroad, theCentral Railroad of New Jersey, theNew Jersey Department of Transportation, and thePort Authority of New York and New Jersey, the plan re-routed Jersey Central passenger trains over the Lehigh Valley between Roselle andPennsylvania Station in Newark. One new station was built at the time:Roselle Park.[8]
Planning for aninfill station in Union Township began in the 1990s as part of the redevelopment of Morris Avenue.[9] The new station was also called "Townley" during planning before Union was adopted in 1998.[10] The new station opened April 28, 2003, at a cost of $27 million.[11] It is adjacent toKean University. Station amenities include a waiting room, rest rooms, vendors, and a 464-space parking lot. The station features artwork reproducing the40th parallel of the Earth's northern hemisphere, and shows cities through which the 40th parallel runs includingLisbon,Rome, andBeijing. Currently, the station is served by 53 weekday and 36 weekend NJ Transit trains.
On September 24, 2013, the station was dedicated to CongressmanBob Franks.[12]
The station has one high-levelisland platform serving two tracks. The platform is 546 feet (166 m) long and can accommodate six cars.[13] The station hasgauntlet tracks (a slightly shifted-over track) on both sides that allowfreight trains to pass the high level platform safely. Currently,freight trains past the station are operated byConrail,CSX Transportation andNorfolk Southern Railway.
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