Mountain View–Wayne
Mountain View station facing northbound at the station canopy. The grade crossing withU.S. Route 202 is visible in the distance.
General information
Location	40 Erie Avenue,Wayne, New Jersey 07470
Coordinates	40°54′50″N74°16′03″W / 40.91389°N 74.26750°W /40.91389; -74.26750
Owned by	NJ Transit
Platforms	1side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	NJT Bus:871
Construction
Accessible	yes
Other information
Station code	1773 (Erie Railroad)[7]
Fare zone	9
History
Opened	January 1, 1873[2][3][4]
Rebuilt	1963 June 19, 1989–February 7, 1990[5][6]
Electrified	Not electrified
Key dates
August 1981	Station agent eliminated[8]
Passengers
2024	37 (average weekday)[1]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Lincoln Park towardHackettstown Montclair–Boonton Line limited service Wayne Route 23 towardNew York Penn Station orHoboken
Former services Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Wayne towardSterling Forest New York and Greenwood Lake Railway Singac towardJersey City
Location

Mountain View, signed on the platform asMountain View–Wayne, is a station on theMontclair–Boonton Line ofNJ Transit inWayne, New Jersey. Prior to theMontclair Connection in 2002,^[9] the station was served by the Boonton Line. The station is located on Erie Avenue, just off ofU.S. Route 202 andRoute 23 in downtown Wayne. Since January 2008, Mountain View station is one of two stations in Wayne, the other being theWayne Route 23 Transit Center, a station off the Westbelt interchange.^[10]

The Mountain View station was one of two stations in Wayne built on theNew York and Greenwood Lake Railway, run by the Erie Railroad. The line ran from the Erie'sPavonia Terminal inJersey City toSterling Forest station on theNew Jersey–New York state line. There was a second station constructed in Wayne, north of Mountain View at the Ryerson Avenue crossing.^[11] In 1935, train service was cut back to theWanaque–Midvale station inWanaque, New Jersey. After theErie Railroad andDelaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad merged in October 1960, plans started in 1963 to abandon the former LackawannaBoonton Branch, a freight railroad built in 1869. This line also had a second Mountain View station. That year, theErie-Lackawanna Railroad tied the Boonton Line and Greenwood Lake lines together at Mountain View Junction. The portion of the Boonton Branch east of the junction was abandoned and the Greenwood Lake line was reduced to shuttle service north of Mountain View.^[12]

At that time, the wooden station depot at Mountain View built by the Erie was demolished and replaced by anArmco metal building on the platform, which boasted two tracks. One track served as the new Boonton Line, which turned westward to Lincoln Park. The other track served as the transfer for the now Wanaque-Midvale shuttle, serving the old Greenwood Lake line north of Mountain View, including the Ryerson Avenue station. The shuttle service was discontinued in October 1966, along with the Ryerson Avenue station.^[12] The track was torn up south ofPequannock Township; as a result, the station shelter and canopy resides on the old shuttle track. The track redirected onto the Boonton Branch is still in use and is the lone track through Mountain View.

The station has one low-level side platform for the lone revenue service track. Mountain View is accessible for handicapped persons under theAmericans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Bike lockers and a ticket vending machine are available.^[13]

Mountain View station has a large station complex, consisting of four parking lots maintained by New Jersey Transit totaling up to 389 parking spaces, eight of which are handicap-accessible. The first of these lots is the main station lot, which has 228 parking spaces on Erie Avenue. All eight handicap spaces are located in that lot. The second lot has seventeen spaces located at Williams Street and Greenwood Avenue. A third lot is also located on this block, consisting of 26 spaces. A fourth and final parking lot is present on Greenwood Avenue nearRoute 23, which makes up the final 118 spaces. There is no parking fee for any of the four lots.^[14] The station receives bus service from the871 route, which was one of the Morris County Metro lines.^[15][16]

No weekend service is provided to Mountain View, as Montclair-Boonton Line weekend service ends atBay Street station in Montclair. However, the six special holiday trains that run toLake Hopatcong station do stop at Mountain View.

• Baxter, Raymond J.; Adams, Arthur G. (1999).Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand.Fordham, New York:Fordham University Press.ISBN 9780823219544.
• Catlin, George L. (1873).Homes on the Montclair Railway, for New York Business Men. A Description of the Country Adjacent to the Montclair Railway, Between Jersey City and Greenwood Lake.New York, New York: Montclair Railway Company.
• Whittemore, Henry (1894).History of Montclair Township, State of New Jersey: Including the History of Families who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Prosperity. New York, New York: The Suburban Publishing Company. RetrievedFebruary 6, 2020.

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