Arlington is a former commuter railroad

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in the Arlington section of Kearny, Hudson County,

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. Located on Garafola Place between the Forest and Elm Street intersections, the station served trains on NJ Transit's

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. The station, which contained two low-level

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, operated trains between Hoboken Terminal and locations west to

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and Hackettstown. The next station to the east was Hoboken while the station to the west was Rowe Street in Bloomfield. Railroad service through the Arlington neighborhood began on January 1, 1873 with the introduction of the

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between Pavonia Terminal in

Jersey City Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.West Milford. The station was one of two in Kearny for the line, with the other one at West Arlington. This line became and the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad, operated by the

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until October 17, 1960. The line became part of the merged Greenwood Lake-

in 1963. The service continued into NJ Transit, becoming the Boonton Line. Arlington station closed, along with Rowe Street and

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in Glen Ridge on September 20, 2002 in advance of the opening of the

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Station layout

Accident

On September 8, 1965, three Kearny High School students were struck and killed by a two car Erie Lackawanna train. The trio, on their way to the first day of the fall term, crossed the tracks at the Elm Street crossing next to the station despite the gate being down. Thinking the warning lights were for a departing east bound train (towards Hoboken), the three students went around the barrier. A boxcar parked in a siding next to the station blocked the victims from seeing the oncoming west bound express train. All three (Robert Floyd, 16, Rodney Murdock, 16, and Richard Collins, 15) were killed instantly. Both the train's fireman and conductor were later arraigned on charges of manslaughter. Following the accident, the town of Kearny began to have physical guards at the crossing during school hours.

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Station layout

Accident

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