Bogota was a railroad station in Bogota, New Jersey, at Court Street/Fort Lee Road west of River Road and east of the Court Street Bridge over the Hackensack River. It was located on the

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Main Line, which provided passenger service between the 1870s and 1960s.

History

The Hoboken, Ridgefield and Paterson Railroad was chartered in 1866 to connect

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with the ports along the Hudson River waterfront. The New Jersey Midland Railway (NJM) was formed in 1870 as a consolidation of several smaller railroads. By March 1872, the NJM line had been extended west from Hackensack, with stations at Maywood,

(at Vreeland Avenue and two others) Wortendyke, and

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, among others, to

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. It was later extended to Sparta, Newton, Blairstown and across the

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to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Soon thereafter trains were running east and south to the Hudson River waterfront at Pennsylvania Railroad's depot in

Jersey City Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.Bergen Hill Cut Bergen Hill refers to the lower Hudson Palisades in New Jersey, where they emerge on Bergen Neck, which in turn is the peninsula between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers, and their bays. In Hudson County, it reaches a height of 260 feet. Rail ...

. The NJ Midland was absorbed into the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad. In 1898, the NYSW became a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad, and made use of Erie's Pavonia Terminal. Passenger service on the line was eliminated June 30, 1966; it is now used for exclusively for freight. The station was north of Hackensack Junction, where the NYSW heading southward ran parallel to the West Shore Railroad, now

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River Subdivision. The location is potential station of

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proposed

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which would be call West Fort Lee Road.

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History

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