Netcong | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Netcong station in December 2014 from the station platform.Route 46 is visible to the right. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Main Street atU.S. Route 46,Netcong, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°53′51.5″N74°42′26.5″W / 40.897639°N 74.707361°W /40.897639; -74.707361 | |||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit | |||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1side platform | |||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Lakeland: 80 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Free and no overnight parking | |||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 902 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[5] | |||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 19[6] | |||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | January 16, 1854[2][3] | |||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1901–June 14, 1903[4] | |||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | No | |||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | South Stanhope Netcong–Stanhope | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2024 | 46 (average weekday)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Netcong is anNJ Transit station inNetcong, inMorris County,New Jersey, United States. Located onU.S. Route 46 at Main Street in downtown Netcong, the small, 1-low level side platform station service passengers for theMorristown Line and theMontclair–Boonton Line. These lines provide service toHoboken or toNew York City viaMidtown Direct on the Morristown Line atDover station and Montclair-Boonton atMontclair State University station. Midtown Direct service can also be transferred atNewark Broad Street station inNewark. There is one track and one platform on the north side, adjacent to the station. NJ Transit maintains a substantial train servicing yard east of the Netcong station atPort Morris inRoxbury Township. Port Morris Yard is proposed to return as the junction of the Montclair–Boonton and Morristown lines for theLackawanna Cut-Off line to theLackawanna Transit Center inScranton, Pennsylvania. Transfers would be provided atLake Hopatcong station inLanding.[7]
Service to Netcong, once known as South Stanhope, began on January 16, 1854 by theMorris & Essex Railroad.[2][3] A 1.5-story depot was constructed by the railroad out of wood and located on the westbound tracks. The current Netcong station was built by theDelaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's main line after construction of the Stanhope Cut-Off from 1901–1903 as the main station to Netcong and nearbyStanhope.[8] The brick design of the station was built with bricks from nearbyPort Murray.[9]
The station served as the junction of theSussex Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western as well, serving towns throughSussex County includingBranchville,Newton andLafayette Township. Passenger railroad service on the Sussex Branch ended in October 1966, when theErie-Lackawanna Railroad, the successor to the Lackawanna, cut service on many passenger branches. In 1979, the line was torn up and handed over to theNew Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Prior to 1994, NJ Transit's service on the then-Boonton Line terminated at Netcong. However, in late 1994, service was extended along theNorfolk Southern owned tracks toMount Olive Township andHackettstown, which became the permanent western terminus of the line.[10]
Netcong has one low-level asphaltside platform.
