Hackettstown is a

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station in Hackettstown,

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. The station is located at the intersection of Valentine Street and Beatty Street and is the western terminus of the

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and the Montclair-Boonton Line, which both provide service to

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or to Pennsylvania Station in

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via

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. Hackettstown station is the only active

station in Warren County. The line from Hackettstown – Dover is diesel powered, requiring a transfer at

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or Newark Broad Street to an electrified train to New York Penn Station. Proposals exist of an extension of the Montclair-Boonton Line, including an extension to

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and possibly Phillipsburg further along the Washington Secondary.

History

Service west of Netcong station began on October 31, 1994, with an extension of the

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westward along

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Secondary. The station was opened along with Mount Olive station near Waterloo Village and the

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in the namesake township. Originally, the

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad) was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey (and by ferry with New York City), a distance of . Incorporated in ...

(DL&W) served Hackettstown with a large station in downtown Hackettstown for its

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alignment. The large wooden station was a Type W-2 station (from DL&W railroad documents) built in 1868. Hackettstown station was razed in the late 1960s after passenger service on most

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branches terminated in October 1966.

Station layout

Hackettstown has one low-level

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References

1994 establishments in New Jersey Hackettstown, New Jersey NJ Transit Rail Operations stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1994 Railway stations in Warren County, New Jersey Former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1854 1854 establishments in New Jersey Railway stations closed in 1966 {{NewJersey-railstation-stub

History

Station layout

See also

References