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Ridgewood is a station on NJT's Main Line. The station is located in Ridgewood, New Jersey.  History The station, sometime before 1915 Ridgewood station first started life along what was formerly the Paterson and Ramapo railroad, as "Godwinville" station, in 1848. This station was rebuilt in 1856 and 1859. In 1866, the station was renamed to Ridgewood due to the popularity of the new name for the town. The station was rebuilt again in 1915, to grade separate the whole line. In 2011, the station was remodeled to make it accessible.  At its peak, Ridgewood station was a regional transfer point between many different services heading to far flung locations such as Chicago. But of course, those days couldn't last forever, and no more intercity service stops at Ridgewood station. Despite this, the station is still important in a regional context.   Services That Run Here Three services run here: Main Line : Hoboken to Suffern via Passaic County Ber...

Ridgewood Bus Terminal is a bus station in Ridgewood, New Jersey.  Multiple bus routes stop at Ridgewood Bus Terminal. These include:  163: Upper Ridgewood to Port Authority Bus Terminal. 163s: Upper Ridgewood to Ridgewood High School. 164: Midland Park to Port Authority Bus Terminal. 175: Ridgewood Bus Terminal to George Washington Bridge Bus Station via Glen Rock and Bergen Community College. 722: South Paterson to Paramus Park Mall via Ridgewood. 746: Paterson Bus Terminal to Ridgewood Bus Terminal. 752: Hackensack Bus Terminal to Oakland via Ridgewood. Tour The terminal building itself, depressing as can be Commuter parking There's more parking here than there is space used for the rest of the terminal!  Cool light fixtures! Inside The inside of the station building is completely locked. From the looks of it, there are a bunch of chairs and not much else. Everything in there is covered in dirt and trash....

Grove Street is the northern terminus station on NJT's Grove Street line, one of the two lines of the Newark Light Rail. The station is located at Grove Street in Bloomfield, New Jersey.  History Original Grove Street station Grove Street was originally the name of a station along the DL&R's main line. The original station was built in 1901, and served as a station all the way until 1991.  By that point it served the Gladstone and Morristown lines before being discontinued and later demolished.  Immediately after this, NJT decided to extend the western branch of the Newark Light Rail further from Franklin Avenue station into Silver Lake and Bloomfield. To do so, the choice was made to disconnect part of the former DL&R Orange Branch from the rest of the American rail system. This section went as far as the branchline's intersection with Grove Street at the town line between Silver Lake and Bloomfield. The station was named the exact same de...

Ardsley is a station on SEPTA's Warminister Line, located in the Ardsley neighborhood of Abington, PA. Ardsley is the first station along the Warminister Line after it branches off of SEPTA's Reading Main Line at Glenside. History Ardsley station in the 1960s or so It's unknown when exactly Ardsley station was built, though construction on the line it is along, the railway to New Hope, was first started in 1872 and finished in 1873. On can easily surmise that the station itself was most likely first built some time around then. At that time, the North Pennsylvania Railroad built a branch to Hartsville (later Ivyland), which then got taken over by the Reading Railroad with the rest of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, and later extended to New Hope. Afterwards, Ardsley was along the portions of the line that had electrified service, which is why the station still has regular passenger service at all.  Throughout the years, Ardsley station still stood. ...

Watsessing Avenue is a station on NJT's Montclair-Boonton Line located at Watsetting Avenue and Moiter Place in Watsetting, NJ. Watsetting Avenue station is in zone 4.  History Watsessing Avenue was a station built by the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad in 1856. The line was then bought out by the Morris and Essex railroad in 1868, the entirety of which was then later bought out by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. Every grade crossing was eliminated between 1912 and 1913. In that time, the current station was built.  Tour The station from the outside  Watsessing is an average station along the Montclair-Boonton line. There's not much to this place, really. Most of the station house is now used for a police department's union building. Watsessing Avenue is incredibly similar to Kingsland station, albeit slightly less bad.   Back of station house I think this used to be a ticket office of some sort yea...