Newark Broad Street
Newark Broad Street station in 2024
General information
Location	Lackawanna Avenue and Broad Street Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Coordinates	40°44′51″N74°10′19″W / 40.74750°N 74.17194°W /40.74750; -74.17194
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	NJ Transit Rail Operations
Platforms	Commuter rail: 1island platform, 1 side platform Light rail: 1 island platform
Tracks	Commuter rail: 3 Light rail: 2
Connections	NJ Transit Bus:11,13,27,28,go28,29,30,41,71,72,73,76,78,108,378[1]
Construction
Platform levels	2
Bicycle facilities	Yes[2]
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Light rail: 30775[3]
Fare zone	2 (commuter rail)[4]
History
Opened	November 19, 1836 (1836-11-19)[5]
Rebuilt	1903, 2008
Electrified	September 3, 1930[6]
Passengers
2017	2,996 (average weekday)[7][8]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station East Orange towardGladstone Gladstone Branch (weekdays) Hoboken Terminus Secaucus Junction (limited service) towardNew York Penn Station Watsessing Avenue towardHackettstown Montclair–Boonton Line Hoboken Terminus Montclair–Boonton Line (weekdays) Secaucus Junction towardNew York Penn Station East Orange towardHackettstown Morristown Line Morristown Line (weekdays) Hoboken Terminus Harriet Tubman Square towardNewark Penn Broad Street – Newark Penn Riverfront Stadium One-way operation
Former services Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Watsessing towardBay Street Montclair Branch Hoboken Terminus Ampere towardBay Street Roseville Avenue towardBay Street Montclair Branch until 1984 Harrison towardHoboken Grove Street towardGladstone Gladstone Branch until April 7, 1991 Hoboken Terminus Grove Street towardHackettstown Morristown Line until April 7, 1991 Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Roseville Avenue towardBuffalo Main Line Hoboken Terminus Roseville Avenue towardGladstone Gladstone Branch Roseville Avenue towardMontclair Montclair Branch Harrison towardHoboken
Newark Broad Street Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built	1901
Architect	Frank J. Nies
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002662[9]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Location

Newark Broad Street station is aNew Jersey Transitcommuter rail andlight rail station at 25 University Avenue inNewark, New Jersey. Built in 1903, the station's historic architecture includes an elegant clock tower and a brick and stone façade on the station's main building. In June 1984, the station was added to theNational Register of Historic Places in recognition of its historical significance.

The current station is the second on the site. The original station opened on November 19, 1836, at the east end of the opening segment of theMorris and Essex Railroad toOrange; for the first couple of decades trains east ofNewark ran over theNew Jersey Rail Road toJersey City. The present station opened in 1903 after two years of construction, located on theDelaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line fromHoboken toDenville,Scranton andBuffalo TheNewark Drawbridge connecting to the station and crossing thePassaic River to the east also opened in 1903. A number of western expansions were built, andHoboken Terminal, the current eastern end of the line, opened in 1907. In 1945, the Morris and Essex Railroad officially merged into the Lackawanna Railroad, which had leased it since 1868 (though the Morris and Essex' separate identity had been largely lost years before). DL&W merged with theErie Railroad in 1960 to form theErie Lackawanna Railroad, which was absorbed byConrail in 1976;NJ Transit has operated all passenger service since 1983.

The station had served several Lackawanna and then Erie Lackwanna passenger trains. These included theLake Cities,Owl/New York Mail,Twilight/Pocono Express and the DLW flagship train, thePhoebe Snow.^[10][11] However, all intercity service ended by 1970.

Thestation building has been listed in thestate andfederal registers of historic places since 1984^[12] and is part of theOperating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.^[13]

From 2004 to 2008 the station was renovated. The station changed from having two outside low platforms, with walkways across one track to the middle track, to having two high platforms, one of them an island platform, to facilitate cross-platform transfers. The historic westbound shelter was removed in the project and new westbound waiting areas were built.

In 2023, a newAmtrak line was proposed betweenScranton andNew York with an estimated half a million riders annually by 2030. It is planned to hit 110 mph. The closest station to the New YorkPenn Station on the line is Newark Broad Street. The next stop will be eitherMorristown station orMontclair station depending on the schedule it is running.^[14]

Broad Street Station is currently served by theMontclair–Boonton Line and both branches of theMorris and Essex Lines –– theMorristown Line andGladstone Branch. All three lines either proceed toSecaucus Junction en route toNew York Penn Station or terminate inHoboken.

This station is also the northern terminus of theNewark Light Rail Broad Street Extension line fromNewark Penn Station. Service on this line opened on July 17, 2006, although light rail service was unavailable from March through July 2008 due to a partial collapse of the formerWestinghouse factory adjacent to the station during demolition. This allows passengers on the two commuter lines serving Broad Street to easily transfer to Newark Penn, and vice versa. Previously, passengers wishing to transfer in Newark had to make their own way (usually by bus or taxi) between the two stations.

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  Station entrance on University Avenue
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  Commuter rail platforms
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  Light rail station
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  Waiting room, during COVID-19 Pandemic
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  Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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  An Erie-Lackawana electric at Broad Street station in November 1978

• Douglass, A.M. (1912).The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29.Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. RetrievedApril 4, 2020.

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