East Orange station facts for kids

Quick facts for kids East Orange
The East Orange station in April 2015, facing toward Brick Church.
Location	65 City Hall Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, and 94 Community Coach: 77
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	November 19, 1836
Rebuilt	April 21, 1921–December 18, 1922
Electrified	September 22, 1930
Traffic
Passengers (2017)	455 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Brick Church toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Newark Broad Street toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Brick Church toward Hackettstown Morristown Line
Former services Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Brick Church toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch until April 7, 1991 Grove Street toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Brick Church toward Hackettstown Morristown Line until April 7, 1991 Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Brick Church toward Buffalo Main Line Grove Street toward Hoboken
East Orange Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
East Orange station depot
Location in Essex County, New Jersey Show map of Essex County, New Jersey Location in New Jersey Show map of New Jersey Location in the United States Show map of the United States
Built	1921
Architect	F.W. Nies
Architectural style	Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002638
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

East Orange is a New Jersey Transit station on the Morris and Essex line in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. This elevated station was built in 1923 for the Lackawanna and now has trains from the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch, including service to Hoboken Terminal and Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is next to the westbound lanes of Interstate 280 about five hundred yards west of the Garden State Parkway. The East Orange City Hall is north of the station.

The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984, listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.

History

Station owner New Jersey Transit decided to perform work at East Orange station to improve accessibility for the handicapped and to repair eighty-year-old viaducts at the station. At a cost of $22.9 million, repair work at East Orange, along with nearby stations Brick Church and South Orange, commenced in 2004. East Orange received a mini-high level platform, the tracks surrounding the station were upgraded with concrete ties and the stairways leading to the platforms were replaced.

Station layout

The station has two low-level platforms serving all three tracks.