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Beverly/Edgewater Park is a station on the River Line located in Beverly, New Jersey.  Tour River line train going north This is just an average River Line station, most of these are fairly similar and are just copy-pasted everywhere along the line.  Trash bin and pillar of shelter The platform as a whole Bench Telephone box?  These telephone boxes are especially unique, but ubiquitous along this line.  Rest of platform Station from behind Parking lot near the station Informational plaque about the history of railroad crossings Bus Connections There are two bus Connections at Beverly, both operated by BurLink, these are:   BurLink B1 - Beverly/Pemberton: This is a long haul bus route that goes via Willingboro and Mount Holly, as well as Pemberton and Browns Mills to the small village of Country Lakes, where it is the only transit av...

Moorestown Mall is a bus station at Moorestown Mall in Moorestown, New Jersey.  Services These services run to or through it:  • 317: Philadelphia (6th and Vine) to Asbury Park • 407: Walter Rand Transportation Center to Moorestown Mall • 413: Walter Rand Transportation Center to Florence • 414: 30th Street Station to Moorestown Mall (LIMITED) • 418: Walter Rand Transportation Center to Trenton (LIMITED) • 457: Walter Rand Transportation Center to Moorestown Mall via Haddonfield Tour Shelters Moorestown Mall is an average bus station. There's nothing of note to see here. There are three bus shelters here.  Bench The shelters have benches. There are trash cans. Nothing revolutionary here.  Bike  r ack There are ramps and a bike rack. This is often not the case at a lot of mall bus stations, so this is actually a pleasant surprise The station from a distance Points of Interest near Moorestown ...

New Brunswick is a station served by Amtrak and NJT trains. The station is located at Easton Avenue and Albany Street in the core of Downtown New Brunswick. New Brunswick is the least used Amtrak station in New Jersey.  History New Brunswick was always an intermodal station New Brunswick first gained rail service in 1838 from the New Jersey Rail Road, as the terminus station for their line between Jersey City and New Brunswick. In 1839, the Camden and Amboy Railroad completed a branch line between Trenton and New Brunswick, and these two lines met up at New Brunswick station. Now, people could take the train between Philadelphia and Jersey City, and a ferry from there to New York City itself. This arrangement mostly stayed the same for much of the rest of the 19th century, even after both the NJRR and Camden and Amboy merged into the United New Jersey Rail Road and Canal Company, which then got leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad.  In 1903, the old New ...

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...