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Netherwood
Netherwood Station August 2014.jpg
Netherwood station in August 2014.
Location South Avenue & Belvedere Avenue, Plainfield, New Jersey
Owned by New Jersey Transit
Line(s) Raritan Valley Line
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections NJ Transit Bus: 133, 822
Olympia Trails: Westfield Commuter Service
Construction
Parking Yes
Other information
Fare zone 10
History
Opened 1874
Rebuilt July 23, 1892–1893
Key dates
March 20, 1892 Station depot burns
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 546 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station NJT logo.svg NJ Transit Following station
Plainfield
toward High Bridge
Raritan Valley Line Fanwood
Former services
Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station
Plainfield
toward Somerville
Somerville – Jersey City
Local
Fanwood–Scotch Plains
Netherwood Station
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Netherwood station
Netherwood station is located in Union County, New Jersey
Netherwood station
Location in Union County, New Jersey
Netherwood station is located in New Jersey
Netherwood station
Location in New Jersey
Netherwood station is located in the United States
Netherwood station
Location in the United States
Location Between North and South Aves., Plainfield, New Jersey
Area 0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built 1894 (1894)
Architectural style Queen Anne, Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
MPS Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No. 84002830
Added to NRHP June 22, 1984

Netherwood is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is located along North Avenue at the intersection of Netherwood Avenue and along South Avenue at the intersection of Belvedere Avenue. The station has a ticket vending machine, and the station house itself is located off of South Avenue.

History

Netherwood station was originally built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1894. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Downtown Plainfield station), whereas the community previously had four; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue (formerly known as Evona). The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource, along with the other active station downtown.

Station layout

The station has two low-level side platforms.

G
Side platform
Track 1      Raritan Valley Line toward Raritan or High Bridge (Plainfield)
Track 2      Raritan Valley Line toward Newark Penn Station (Fanwood)
Side platform
Street level Station building, parking, buses
M Mezzanine Underpass between platforms
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