Netherwood station facts for kids
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Netherwood
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Netherwood station in August 2014.
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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 |
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Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 10 | ||||||||||||
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Opened | 1874 | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | July 23, 1892–1893 | ||||||||||||
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March 20, 1892 | Station depot burns | ||||||||||||
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Passengers (2012) | 546 (average weekday) | ||||||||||||
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Netherwood Station
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Netherwood station
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Location | Between North and South Aves., Plainfield, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) | ||||||||||||
Built | 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.
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Side platform | ||
Track 1 | ← Raritan Valley Line toward Raritan or High Bridge (Plainfield) | |
Track 2 | Raritan Valley Line toward Newark Penn Station (Fanwood) → | |
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Street level | Station building, parking, buses | |
M | Mezzanine | Underpass between platforms |