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Trenton Transit Center is the main passengertrain station inTrenton, New Jersey. Located along theNortheast Corridor, it is served byAmtrak intercity trains plusNJ Transit andSEPTA Regional Rail trains. It is the southern terminus of the NJ TransitNortheast Corridor Line and the northern terminus of the SEPTATrenton Line. It is also the northern terminus of the NJ TransitRiver Line service and a terminal for NJ Transit and SEPTA buses.
The primary station building is located on South Clinton Avenue on the west side of the tracks, with a smaller building on the east side. The four-track below-grade Northeast Corridor widens to eight tracks at the station: four platform tracks serving two accessibleisland platforms, two center bypass tracks, and two outside siding tracks. A non-accessibleside platform, not normally in use, is located next to the eastern siding track. A footbridge connects the station buildings and the platforms. The terminal for the River Line, with two tracks and twoside platforms, is located across south Clinton Avenue from the main station building.
Rail service in Trenton dates back to the days of theCamden and Amboy Railroad, which built a station on East Street in 1837, until it was moved to the current site in 1863. The C&A was merged into theUnited New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company in 1867 and acquired by thePennsylvania Railroad in 1893, which replaced the station the same year.
As with many PRR stations, especially in New Jersey, the station became aPenn Central station once theNew York Central merged with the PRR in 1968. Amtrak took over intercity railroad service in 1971, but Penn Central continued to serve commuters, even as the station building closed in 1972. In 1976, the bankrupt Penn Central and Amtrak built the new Trenton Rail Station just before Penn Central's rail assets were taken over byConrail. It was built to astandard template used at many Amtrak stations built in the 1970s and early 1980s, with a rectangular shape and a boxy, cantilevered metal roof.NJ Transit Rail Operations took over the station when it acquired Conrail's New Jersey commuter lines in 1983, but the station continued to serve Amtrak as well asSEPTA Regional Rail to Philadelphia. From 2006 to 2008, a major reconstruction project authorized by NJT took place with $46 million worth of federal aid, and $33 million worth of state funding that resulted in the current Trenton Transit Center.[7]
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