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Station Review #183: Hammonton (NJT)

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Hammonton is a station on NJT's Atlantic City Line. The station is located along front street, near the intersection of Line and Front streets in Hammonton, New Jersey.    History Old station building The first Hammonton station was built sometime around 1850. It was then bought out by the Pennsylvania Railroad and rebuilt sometime before 1907. In 1989, service was brought back to Atlantic City from Philadelphia and New York City from Amtrak, which necessitated a new station be built. That new station is the station used today. The old station depot is still standing.   Tour  Atlantic City Line train. Hammonton is a fairly decent station, especially as far as NJT stations are concerned (looking at you, Delawanna ).     Inside one of the two shelters. Hammonton station has benches, TVMs, and maps. No countdown clock, however.    Platform. The platform at Hammonton station is a full high level platform.     For accessibility...

Station Review #147: Pennsauken Transit Center (NJT)

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Pennsauken is an NJT train station located on Derousse avenue in Pennsauken, New Jersey. This station was originally planned as an infill station for both the River Line and Atlantic City Line where one can transfer between the two lines without taking a different NJT bus to 30th Street in Philadelphia.  Services Bus stop Pennsauken station has two different main services, both provided by NJT Atlantic City Line - Regional trains from 30th Street Station to Atlantic City via Camden and Atlantic Counties. Runs about once every 90 minutes per direction, sometimes more or less depending on what day it is and what time.  River Line - Medium Rail trains from Waterfront Entertainment Center (Camden) to Trenton Transit Center Additionally, buses are provided, listed below: 404 - Philadelphia to Pennsauken Industrial Park (Most buses go to Cherry Hill Mall instead) via Westfield Avenue. This variant only runs a few times a day. 417 - 30th Street Station to Fai...

Station Review #45: Atlantic City (NJT)

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Atlantic City is the eastern terminus station of NJT's Atlantic City line, located in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  History The old Atlantic City Union Station  Atlantic City used to originally have competing lines from the Reading and Pennsylvania railroads for a long while. This changed in the 1930s, though and both merged their South Jersey assets to form the PRSL. In 1934, Atlantic City Union Station was built, and with the building of this station was the creation of an icon. It was located at Arctic and Arkansas avenues, and was incredibly important for the well-being of the city. Unfortunately, Atlantic City Union Station lost train service in 1964, which had been removed in the creation of the Atlantic City Expressway. Atlantic City Union Station kept being used for bus service until 1997 when it was completely torn down and replaced by an outlet mall called The Walk. A new bus station was built nearby at Atlantic Avenue and Ohio Avenue called Atl...