Hopewell station facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Hopewell
Former SEPTA regional rail station
Hopewell station in 2013.
History
Opened	April 27, 1876 (ceremonial service) May 1, 1876 (regular service)
Closed	December 3, 1982
Key dates
October 1976	Station agent eliminated
Former services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station West Trenton toward Reading Terminal West Trenton Line Belle Mead toward Newark Penn Station Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Pennington toward Jenkintown New York Branch Skillman toward Bound Brook
Hopewell Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Hopewell station in 2019
Location in Mercer County, New Jersey Show map of Mercer County, New Jersey Location in New Jersey Show map of New Jersey Location in the United States Show map of the United States
Location	Railroad Place, Hopewell, New Jersey
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1876
Architectural style	Second Empire
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002728
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

Hopewell station is located in Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The station was built in 1876. The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and was originally listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource. New Jersey Transit has proposed reopening the station to railroad service as part of the West Trenton Line.

History

The Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad built the station in 1876 as part of the planned National Railway route between New York City and Washington, D.C. The station was leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway in 1879. Train service to the station was terminated in 1982.

Gallery

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  The passenger train station of Hopewell, which has not been used as a passenger station since 1982. It has an office on the second floor and what may be in use as meeting or catering rooms downstairs.

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  This is the passenger station's waiting room, complete with vintage stove and seating. It is smaller than the main room, which may have been the station office in the old days.

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  The main room of the Hopewell passenger station, at least part of which may have been the railroad office at one time.

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  The waiting room of the Hopewell passenger station, complete with vintage stove.

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  Hopewell station in 2007.