Little Falls station is a

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station located at Union Avenue in

Little Falls, New Jersey Little Falls is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. The township was named for a waterfall on the Passaic River at a dam near Beattie Mill. As of the 2020 census, the township's population was 13,360 reflecting a decreas ...

. The station, on the

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is the first to receive limited revenue service due to the end of electrification at the site of the former Great Notch station.

History

The station is located along the

, a former alignment of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway (NYGL), run by the Erie Railroad. The line ran from the Erie's

Pavonia Terminal Pavonia Terminal was the Erie Railroad terminal on the Hudson River situated on the landfilled Harsimus Cove in Jersey City, New Jersey. The station opened in 1861 and closed in 1958 when the Erie Railroad moved its passenger services to nearby ...

in Jersey City to Sterling Forest station on the

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/ New York state line. The station was the second of three built in Little Falls, the others being Great Notch station in the Great Notch district and the Singac station. The current railroad depot, a one-story brick structure, was built by the Erie in 1915. The Greenwood Lake Line was cut back to

Wanaque–Midvale station Wanaque–Midvale was a former commuter railroad station of the Erie Railroad's New York and Greenwood Lake Railway branch in Wanaque, New Jersey, United States. When built in 1873, the station served trains running from Pavonia Terminal in Jers ...

in 1935 and then cut entirely in 1966, but service on this portion of the line was transferred to the newly created Boonton Line, a mix of the New York and Greenwood Lake and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's

Boonton Branch The Boonton Branch refers to the railroad line in New Jersey that was completed in 1870 and ran 34 miles (54.8 km) from Hoboken to East Dover Junction as part of the Morris & Essex Railroad (M&E). Although the branch hosted commuter train ...

. In 1983, seven years after the death of the

Erie-Lackawanna Railroad The Erie Lackawanna Railway , known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service Route" ...

, (after which service had been provided by Conrail), New Jersey Transit took over railroad operations and maintenance of the building. Formerly one of three stations in Little Falls, it has become the only one in downtown Little Falls, after Great Notch was closed by New Jersey Transit in January 2010.

Station layout

This station has one track for revenue service, one track used as a passing siding, and one side platform. The station has a brick station depot completed in 1915. It also has 194 parking spaces, 134 on Railroad Avenue at Montclair Avenue and 60 more along Montclair Avenue. A ticket machine is available. The station is not compliant with the

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. There is no weekend service to Little Falls, as all service terminates at

Bay Street station Bay Street is a New Jersey Transit station on Pine Street between Bloomfield and Glenridge Avenues in Montclair, New Jersey, along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The station is served by all trains on the line, including all ten weekend trains. Th ...

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. Bus service is provided by New Jersey Transit with four lines meeting at Little Falls station by the No. 11, No. 191, No. 704 and No. 705.

History

Station layout

See also