Cranford station

Cranford
Cranford Station in August 2014.
Location	South Avenue East, Cranford, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°39′20″N 74°18′10″W / 40.6555°N 74.3028°WCoordinates: 40°39′20″N 74°18′10″W / 40.6555°N 74.3028°W
Line(s)	Raritan Valley Line
Platforms	2 side platforms (formerly island platforms)
Tracks	3 (formerly 6)
Connections	NJT Bus: 59 and 113 Olympia Trails: Westfield Commuter Service
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	7
History
Opened	1839[1]
Rebuilt	1844, 1865, 1906, August 11, 1929[1]
Previous names	French House (1839–c. 1865)[1]
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	1,264 (average weekday)[2]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Garwood toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Roselle Park toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station

Cranford is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Cranford, New Jersey. The current Cranford station was built in the mid-1930s by the Central Railroad of New Jersey on an embankment as part of a grade crossing elimination project. Three stations preceded the current building. The station building has a ticket office, waiting area, and offices. The platforms are accessed by stairs and elevators.

Following the implementation of the Aldene Plan in 1967, the station served as the western terminus of the Cranford-Bayonne Shuttle. The station is the eastern-most station on the old main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey still serving as station. Like several other New Jersey Transit lines a once a week freight train can be seen in the early morning hours at Cranford station (which the plan has been currently scrapped due to NJ Transit train delay issues).

Cranford Station has been identified as a stop on the Union go bus expressway, a proposed bus rapid transit line utilizing the a portion of the abandoned Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) right-of-way between it and Midtown Station, a transit hub combining the NJT station and the former CNJ station in Elizabeth.^{[3] [4][5]}

Station layout

	■ Raritan Valley Line	toward High Bridge (Garwood)
	■ Raritan Valley Line	toward Hoboken or New York (Roselle Park)

References

1. Bernhart, Benjamin L. (2004). Historic Journeys By Rail: Central Railroad of New Jersey Stations, Structures & Marine Equipment. Outer Station Project. p. 59. ISBN 1891402072.
2. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2012.
3. "Union County Go bus expressway" (PDF). NJ Transit Bus Service: The Next Generation. New Jersey Transit. April 26, 2020. Retrieved 2012-03-30. Check date values in: |date= (help)
4. "Bollwage supports construction of new midtown train station by NJ Transit", Suburban News, March 16, 2012, retrieved 2012-02-01
5. "Elizabeth Downtown Multi-Modal Integration Study". North Jersey Transportation Planning Organization. 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-30.

External links

Media related to Cranford (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line
• Photo and brief narrated history of earlier Cranford station by Cranford resident Bernie Wagenblast
• Union Avenue / Walnut Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station from Google Maps Street View