Silver Lake station is a surface-level light rail station operated by New Jersey Transit in Belleville, New Jersey. The station is the only one in Belleville, operating along the Grove Street station (Newark Light Rail), Grove Street–Pennsylvania Station (Newark), Newark Penn Station line of the Newark Light Rail. The station contains two low-level platforms that are off-centered. The Newark-bound platform is accessible from Franklin Street (List of county routes in Essex County, New Jersey, County Route 607) and nearby Heckel Street while the Grove Street-bound platform is accessible from nearby Belmont Avenue. The current light rail station opened on June 22, 2002, as part of an extension of the Newark City Subway from nearby Branch Brook Park station to Grove Street in Bloomfield, New Jersey, Bloomfield. The station uses former tracks of the former Erie Railroad Orange Branch, which went from nearby Forest Hill station (Erie Railroad), Forest Hill in Newark to West Orange, New Jersey, West Orange. Service on this line ended on June 20, 1955. Silver Lake boasted a full wooden station depot with a built-in railroad tower.

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Franklin Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

Belmont Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Belleville, New Jersey Newark Light Rail stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 2002 Former Erie Railroad stations Railway stations in Essex County, New Jersey 2002 establishments in New Jersey {{NewJersey-railstation-stub