Mountain Lakes station
Mountain Lakes is a commuter railroad station in the borough of Mountain Lakes, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Serviced by New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line, the station is the first/last station after the Morristown Line merges/diverges at Denville station. The station consists of one low-level side platform, servicing a solo track. A station depot, built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, is located in the parking lot, currently serving as a restaurant known as "The Station at Mountain Lakes".
Mountain Lakes | |||||||||||||
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 The Mountain Lakes station facing the Denville-bound direction. The 1912-built depot (now a restaurant) is visible in the distance. | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 99 Midvale Road, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 07046 | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40.8859°N 74.4336°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | 31 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 14[2] | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | November 10, 1912[3] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 17 (average weekday)[4][5] | ||||||||||||
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Mountain Lakes station | |||||||||||||
 The station depot from Midvale Road in September 2014. | |||||||||||||
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| Part of | Mountain Lakes Historic District (ID05000963[6]) | ||||||||||||
| Added to NRHP | September 7, 2005 | ||||||||||||
Mountain Lakes station opened on November 10, 1912, replacing the former Fox Hill station located east of U.S. Route 46 in Denville, which had been on the freight-only Boonton Branch since 1870.
History
Mountain Lakes station was first served by Delaware, Lackawanna and Western trains in 1869, when the freight-only Boonton Branch was constructed via Paterson to bypass the passenger Morris & Essex Railroad.
In 1912, the DL&W built a new station to replace the old Fox Hill station, breaking ground in May and opening in November.[7]
This building is on the Morris County Inventory of Historic Sites.[8] It is also part of the Mountain Lakes Historic District, which was created by the New Jersey State Historical Preservation Office on July 22, 2005,[9] and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 2005.
Station layout
Mountain Lakes has one low-level platform.
| Ground/ Platform level |
Outbound/Inbound | ← Montclair-Boonton Line PM rush hours toward Hackettstown (Denville) Montclair-Boonton Line AM rush hours toward Hoboken or New York (Boonton) → |
| Side platform, doors will open on the left or right | ||
| Street level | Ticket machine and parking | |
See also
References
- List of Station Numbers. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (Report). 1952. p. 1.
- "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables" (PDF) (May 23, 2010 ed.). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 2010. pp. 1–4. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
- "Mountain Lakes Station Will Open Tomorrow". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 9, 1912. p. 18. Retrieved June 5, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- "Mountain Lakes Gets New Station". Christian Science Monitor. Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Monitor. May 16, 1912. p. 4. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
- "1. Mountain Lakes Railroad Station & Esplanade". Mountain Lakes, New Jersey: Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. 2010. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2010.
- New Jersey State Historical Preservation Office (April 1, 2010). "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Morris County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
External links
Media related to Mountain Lakes (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons