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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...

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...