Netherwood is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is located along North Avenue at the intersection of Netherwood Avenue and along South Avenue at the intersection of Belvedere Avenue. The station has a ticket vending machine, and the station house itself is located off of South Avenue.

History

Netherwood station was originally built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1894. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Plainfield (NJT station), Downtown Plainfield station), whereas the community previously had five; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue (formerly known as Evona). The station building has been listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, state and National Register of Historic Places, federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey), Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource, along with the other active station downtown.

Station layout

The station has two low-level side platforms.

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Station House from Google Maps Street View
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History

Station layout

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