Delawanna station

Delawanna is a commuter rail station for New Jersey Transit in the Delawanna section of Clifton, Passaic County, New Jersey. The station, located at the intersection of Delawanna Avenue (Passaic County Route 610) and Oak Street (County Route 605), serves trains on New Jersey Transit's Main Line, serving Hoboken Terminal on the east end and Suffern and Port Jervis stations on the west end in New York. Delawanna station has two low-level side platforms with a shelter on the inbound side, lacking access for the physically disabled under the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990.

Delawanna
Delawanna station in March 2014, from the Suffern-bound platform.
General information
Coordinates40.8317°N 74.1314°W / 40.8317; -74.1314
Owned byNJ Transit
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsNJT Bus: 27, 74, 190
Construction
Parking142 spaces
Other information
Fare zone3
History
OpenedSeptember 12, 1870 (freight service)[1]
December 14, 1870 (passenger service)[2]
Rebuilt1925[3]
Key dates
May 4, 1970Westbound station razed[4]
Passengers
2018645 (average weekday)[5]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Passaic
toward Suffern
 Main Line Lyndhurst
toward Hoboken
Former services
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Passaic
toward Dover
 Boonton Branch Lyndhurst
toward Hoboken

History

Service to Delawanna, a portmanteau of Delaware and Lackawanna, began on September 12, 1870, for Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Boonton Branch for freights. Passenger service began on December 14, 1870. The station depot was replaced in 1925 on the westbound side when the tracks were elevated through Clifton. That structure came down on May 14, 1970, after years of neglect.

Station layout

The station has two tracks, each with a low-level side platform. A large parking lot is available on Delawanna Avenue for riders.

Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 1 ←      Main Line toward Ridgewood, Waldwick or Suffern (Passaic)
←      Port Jervis Line does not stop here
Track 2 ←      Port Jervis Line does not stop here →
←      Main Line toward Hoboken (Lyndhurst) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Bibliography
  • Lyon, Isaac S. (1873). Historical Discourse on Boonton, Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the Evenings of September 21 and 28, and October 5, 1867. Newark, New Jersey: The Daily Journal Office. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  • Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.

References
  1. Arch, Brad (January 1982). "The Morris and Essex Railroad" (PDF). Journal of New Jersey Postal History Society. X (1): 4–8. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  2. Lyon 1873, p. 55.
  3. Taber & Taber 1981, p. 734
  4. "Delawanna Station to be Razed May 4". The Herald-News. Passaic, New Jersey. April 17, 1970. p. 20. Retrieved March 13, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  5. Kiefer, Eric. "Here Are New Jersey Transit's Most, Least-Used Train Stations". patch.com. Retrieved September 13, 2022.

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