Pompton Plains is a former railroad station in

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, Morris County,

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. Located at 33 Evans Place in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock, the station is a former stop on the

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's Greenwood Lake Division (former New York and Greenwood Lake Railway). The station was a single side-platform station with service from

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 Wanaque to

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. The next station north was Pompton–Riverdale after 1951 (Riverdale station before 1951). The next station south was Pequannock station. Service through Pompton Plains began in January 1873 as part of a railroad from Jersey City to

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and

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. The station became part of the New York and Greenwood Lake in 1878 and the Erie Railroad in 1896. Service through to Greenwood Lake ended in 1935 and replaced to Wanaque. In October 1963, the station became part of a shuttle line operated by the

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between Wanaque–Midvale and

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in Wayne. Passenger service at Pompton Plains ended on September 30, 1966 as part of several cuts by the Erie-Lackawanna. The station was added to the

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on March 5, 2008.

History

James R. Evans was the station agent from the 1870s to turn of the 20th century. Regular passenger train service for the train station ended in 1963, although shuttles from Mountain View remained until 1966. Freight service to the station continued into the early 1980s. More recently, the station building was used as a clothing consignment shop, and later as a

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insurance office. The station and site were purchased by

in 2005. The station was restored in 2009 and currently serves as the Pequannock Township Museum. As of 2020, the railroad

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along the station was sold by the owner,

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and bought by Morris County for redevelopment as a public

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.https://www.morriscountynj.gov/Departments/Engineering-Transportation/Reports-Projects/NYSW-Bicycle-and-Pedestrian-Path Pompton Plains Station - November 2023

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Pequannock Township Museum
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