Perth Amboy station facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy station, April 2015.
Location	Elm Street between Smith & Market Streets Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 48, 116, 813, 815, and 817
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	No
Other information
Fare zone	12
History
Rebuilt	1923
Electrified	12 kV 25 Hz until 2002 25 kV AC since then
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	874 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station South Amboy toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line Woodbridge toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station Terminus Elizabethport and Perth Amboy Branch Barber toward Elizabethport Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Terminus Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Branch Genasco toward Rahway Preceding station New York and Long Branch Railroad Following station South Amboy Junction toward Bay Head Junction Main Line Terminus
Perth Amboy Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Perth Amboy station's eastbound entrance
Location in Middlesex County, New Jersey Show map of Middlesex County, New Jersey Location in New Jersey Show map of New Jersey Location in the United States Show map of the United States
Built	1923
Architect	A.E. Owen
Architectural style	Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002735
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

Perth Amboy is a station on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, located in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, 1½ miles south of Woodbridge and 2½ miles north of South Amboy. The station is located in a cut between Elm Street and Maple Street and between Smith Street and Market Street in downtown Perth Amboy, and has two low side platforms. A ticket office is located at street level. The platforms are below street level in the cut.

History

The station building was built in the 1920s to replace an older structure built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey that was moved to Lewis Street and currently serves as a private residence there. It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.

Station renovations

The station was refurbished in the 1990s. On June 16, 2010, New Jersey Transit (NJT) announced a $1 million (2010 USD) deal with Stantec Consulting Services in Rochelle Park, New Jersey to study the addition of high-level platforms for handicap accessibility, per the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) The platform renovation will also include canopies, elevators to street-level and upgrades to communication systems. New Jersey Transit in its 2015 budget allocated $9.6 million for the final design for a major renovation that would modernize it and make it compliant with the ADA.

Station layout

Perth Amboy has two low-level asphalt side platforms.