Station Review #84: Grove Street (NJT)
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...