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Mount Arlington (also known as the Howard Boulevard Park and Ride) is a
commuter rail
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road station for
New Jersey Transit
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. Located in the
borough
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History
In the Middle Ag ...
of
Mount Arlington,
Morris County,
New Jersey
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,
United States
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, the station is located next to interchange 30 on
Interstate 80. The station serves as a
park-and-ride
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for commuters to catch trains for
Hoboken Terminal
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and
New York Penn Station
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. Trains use the
Montclair-Boonton Line
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and
Morristown Line
The Morristown Line is an NJ Transit commuter rail line connecting Morris and Essex counties to New York City, via either New York Penn Station or Hoboken Terminal. Out of 60 inbound and 58 outbound daily weekday trains, 28 inbound and 26 outbound ...
to serve locales between
Hackettstown and the eastern terminals.
Lakeland Bus Lines
Lakeland Bus Lines, Inc is a privately chartered and apportioned bus company headquartered in Dover, New Jersey. Lakeland operates commuter routes from Morris, Sussex, Somerset and Essex Counties, NJ to New York City.
Routes
Lakeland Bus Lines ...
also services Mount Arlington station. The station is
handicapped accessible
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as part of the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
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. The station features two
side platforms
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and two tracks with elevators.
Railroad history in Mount Arlington began on January 16, 1854, with an extension of the
Morris and Essex Railroad
The Morris and Essex Railroad was a railroad across northern New Jersey, later part of the main line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
History
The M&E was incorporated January 29, 1835, to build a line from Newark in Essex Coun ...
from
Dover
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to Hackettstown. The station was established west of the current station under the name of Drakesville. The station was renamed on July 1, 1891 from Drakesville to Mount Arlington.
[ ] A new station was opened later that year. Passenger service ended at Mount Arlington on November 8, 1942 and service was merged with nearby
Lake Hopatcong station
Lake Hopatcong is a commuter railroad station for New Jersey Transit. The station, located in the community of Landing in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serves trains for the Montclair-Boonton Line and Morristown Line ...
in
Landing
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.
The current station at Mount Arlington began construction on June 12, 2006 with a
groundbreaking ceremony
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headlined by
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen
Rodney Procter Frelinghuysen (born April 29, 1946) is an American former politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for from 1995 to 2019. The district includes most of Morris County, an affluent suburban county west of New ...
(
R–NJ). This new station would join a park and ride already built for buses at Howard Boulevard (
Morris County Route 615).
[ ] Despite a slated 2007 opening,
the station opened to the public on January 21, 2008.
History
Mount Arlington was the site of a former
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 ...
station, that replaced the old Drakesville station in modern-day
Ledgewood that opened on January 16, 1854.
That station burned on February 19, 1867. The railroad closed Drakesville station in 1891 when they built the new station at Mount Arlington, to the east.
The Mount Arlington station itself closed on November 8, 1942.
Station layout
Mount Arlington has two high-level
side platform
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s.
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References
External links
Official station information pageProject planning pageView from Interstate 80 (Google Maps)
Railway stations in Morris County, New Jersey
NJ Transit Rail Operations stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1854
1854 establishments in New Jersey
Former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad stations
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