Summit is a

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Summit, New Jersey Summit is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The city is located on a ridge in northern- central New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley and Rahway Valley regions in the New York metropolitan area. At the 2010 United Sta ...

, served by

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Morris & Essex Lines The Morris & Essex Lines are a group of former Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DL&W) railroad lines in New Jersey now owned and operated by NJ Transit. The lines include service offered on the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch. P ...

(the

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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 ...

). The station sits between Union Place on the north and Broad Street on the south, with station access via either side, and between Summit Avenue on the east and Maple Avenue on the west. Constructed in 1904–1905 by the

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in a mile-long open cut, it is one of the few NJ Transit stations with platforms below street level.

History

The station had served several

, and then Erie-Lackwanna Railroad, named passenger trains. These included the '' Lake Cities,'' ''Owl''/''New York Mail,'' ''Twilight''/''Pocono Express'' and the DLW flagship train, the ''

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.'' The station was cosmetically renovated for the 2005

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at the

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in nearby

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. Status screens were installed on the platforms to show the next train and the platforms, and fittings were painted. The screens are still present. During that time, buses were used as the connection to go to and from the PGA Championship. On December 20, 2018,

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chose the station as the venue to sign legislation to reform the management of NJ Transit.

Station layout and services

There are two platforms and three tracks: Track 1 is served by a side platform, while Tracks 2 and 3 are served by the island platform. The side platform is accessible via the station overpass or directly from the Union Place parking lot, while the island platform can only be accessed via the overpass. In the early morning hours, trains on the Gladstone Branch originate at Gladstone Station with a final destination to

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. Trains going to

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(New York Penn Station) originate in

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. On weekends, the Gladstone Branch trains only operate between Summit and Gladstone, requiring passengers wishing to travel farther east to transfer across the platform to a Morristown Line train, which operates between Dover and New York (as well as Hoboken via a transfer at Newark Broad Street station). The station has a small

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on its property that slopes down from Union Place. Another large lot is across Summit Avenue, accessible from Broad Street. In the 1990s, a multistory

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was built on part of the Broad Street lot. In the days after the

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, the city made daily chalk marks on the tires of the many unclaimed vehicles to help identify those missing. The station also has a waiting room with a small coffee and newspaper shop that is open at morning commute time and then through the afternoon rush hour.

Gallery

File:EL MU train waiting to depart Summit, NJ on June 21, 1968 (24070419546).jpg, Summit station in 1968 Image:Summit NJT station.jpg, Station building on Union Place in downtown Summit Image:New_Jersey_Transit_6662-1.JPG, New Jersey Transit Midtown Direct train in Summit

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References

External links

Station House from Google Maps Street View
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