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Millburn station
40°43′32.4″N 74°18′13.3″W / 40.725667°N 74.303694°W
Millburn is an active commuter railroad station in Millburn Township, Essex County, New Jersey. Serving trains of NJ Transit's Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch, trains operate from New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal to points west, including Dover, Gladstone and Hackettstown. The next station to the west is Short Hills while the next station to the east is Maplewood. Millburn station contains two low-level side platforms with two office buildings fronting the structure, a colonial-style building built in 1962 on the westbound tracks and a modern office building on the eastbound tracks built in 1987. The station also has a ticket agency with a waiting room.
The area known as Millburn gained railroad service on September 28, 1837 with the extension of the Morris and Essex Railroad from Orange to Madison. The original station building burned in 1874, replaced by the freight station until 1907, when the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad built a new station. The construction of the new station in 1907 resulted in the abandonment of the station at Wyoming in the township on November 10, 1907. Local development projects resulted in both station depots being demolished, with Frank Donnelly demolishing the westbound station for a two-story office building in 1962 and P&R Associates demolishing the eastbound structure for its building in December 1986. The current eastbound station opened on August 3, 1988.
Service in the area of Springfield Township in then-Union County began on September 17, 1837 when the "Orange", a locomotive operated by the Morris and Essex Railroad, began a test trip between Newark and Madison. This train was a single locomotive and two cars. Permanent service between the two municipalities began on September 28, 1837 and a station was established as Millville. Millville station stood next to a pond, where the "Orange" would take water due to the railroad being at a low enough level. However, railroad crews discovered that the locomotive could not maintain sufficient steam for the heavy load of water and this was replaced by a water pump machine at Summit.
Construction of the Morris and Essex through Millville helped influence development. Prior to the construction of the railroad, Millville had a few local businesses, residences and a paper mill. With the railroad, more direct delivery options were made for the paper mills to send their wares to Elizabeth, New Jersey and New York City that were previously sent by sloops. The railroad turned the paper mills into the principal industry of the area and development grew around the new paper mills.
The railroad station built at Millville, which became Millburn Township in 1857, burned in a fire in 1874. The depot was replaced by the freight station, built in 1855 by entrepreneur Jonathan Parkhurst to protect his paper products from the mills. This wooden structure was converted into a passenger station. Deferred maintenance led to the depot becoming an eyesore in the municipality with the station not being washed save for the John L. Sullivan appearance in 1886.
The new station at Millburn opened on November 10, 1907. The original plans were for the 11:20 a.m. would be the first train to use the new station, but an unrelated accident of the 11:50 p.m. Saturday train on November 9 caused a change in the plans. The damaged train worked its way through Millburn and attempted to take a switch 100 feet (30 m) west of the station, derailed and the caused the train to stop at the new platform, becoming the new first train at the station. The construction of the new station resulted in the closure of the Wyoming station, leaving an inconvenience to the passengers due to the lack of direct access to the new Millburn station. However, plans were in motion to make a connection to the Laurel Street section of Wyoming to the new Millburn station. The Lackawanna installed a new sidewalk along the road paralleling the tracks to help Wyoming residents reach the new station. Both stations were made of brick; the eastbound station being 28 by 73 feet (8.5 m × 22.3 m) in size and the westbound one being 16 by 60 feet (4.9 m × 18.3 m). The station also had a 32-by-117-foot (9.8 m × 35.7 m) freight house.
The closure of Wyoming station drew local opposition. After sending a letter to the railroad, the Lackawanna sent residents of Wyoming that there were benefits of the newly rebuilt Millburn station and that they would not work harder on improving access to the Wyoming neighborhood. The newly-formed Wyoming Association came together in January 1908 as part of a response to the closure of Wyoming station. Their committee on transportation focused on getting a reversal of the closure. They attended a hearing of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners in Trenton on March 3. The Commissioners ordered the railroad to re-open Wyoming station and a new train station.
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Millburn station
40°43′32.4″N 74°18′13.3″W / 40.725667°N 74.303694°W
Millburn is an active commuter railroad station in Millburn Township, Essex County, New Jersey. Serving trains of NJ Transit's Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch, trains operate from New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal to points west, including Dover, Gladstone and Hackettstown. The next station to the west is Short Hills while the next station to the east is Maplewood. Millburn station contains two low-level side platforms with two office buildings fronting the structure, a colonial-style building built in 1962 on the westbound tracks and a modern office building on the eastbound tracks built in 1987. The station also has a ticket agency with a waiting room.
The area known as Millburn gained railroad service on September 28, 1837 with the extension of the Morris and Essex Railroad from Orange to Madison. The original station building burned in 1874, replaced by the freight station until 1907, when the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad built a new station. The construction of the new station in 1907 resulted in the abandonment of the station at Wyoming in the township on November 10, 1907. Local development projects resulted in both station depots being demolished, with Frank Donnelly demolishing the westbound station for a two-story office building in 1962 and P&R Associates demolishing the eastbound structure for its building in December 1986. The current eastbound station opened on August 3, 1988.
Service in the area of Springfield Township in then-Union County began on September 17, 1837 when the "Orange", a locomotive operated by the Morris and Essex Railroad, began a test trip between Newark and Madison. This train was a single locomotive and two cars. Permanent service between the two municipalities began on September 28, 1837 and a station was established as Millville. Millville station stood next to a pond, where the "Orange" would take water due to the railroad being at a low enough level. However, railroad crews discovered that the locomotive could not maintain sufficient steam for the heavy load of water and this was replaced by a water pump machine at Summit.
Construction of the Morris and Essex through Millville helped influence development. Prior to the construction of the railroad, Millville had a few local businesses, residences and a paper mill. With the railroad, more direct delivery options were made for the paper mills to send their wares to Elizabeth, New Jersey and New York City that were previously sent by sloops. The railroad turned the paper mills into the principal industry of the area and development grew around the new paper mills.
The railroad station built at Millville, which became Millburn Township in 1857, burned in a fire in 1874. The depot was replaced by the freight station, built in 1855 by entrepreneur Jonathan Parkhurst to protect his paper products from the mills. This wooden structure was converted into a passenger station. Deferred maintenance led to the depot becoming an eyesore in the municipality with the station not being washed save for the John L. Sullivan appearance in 1886.
The new station at Millburn opened on November 10, 1907. The original plans were for the 11:20 a.m. would be the first train to use the new station, but an unrelated accident of the 11:50 p.m. Saturday train on November 9 caused a change in the plans. The damaged train worked its way through Millburn and attempted to take a switch 100 feet (30 m) west of the station, derailed and the caused the train to stop at the new platform, becoming the new first train at the station. The construction of the new station resulted in the closure of the Wyoming station, leaving an inconvenience to the passengers due to the lack of direct access to the new Millburn station. However, plans were in motion to make a connection to the Laurel Street section of Wyoming to the new Millburn station. The Lackawanna installed a new sidewalk along the road paralleling the tracks to help Wyoming residents reach the new station. Both stations were made of brick; the eastbound station being 28 by 73 feet (8.5 m × 22.3 m) in size and the westbound one being 16 by 60 feet (4.9 m × 18.3 m). The station also had a 32-by-117-foot (9.8 m × 35.7 m) freight house.
The closure of Wyoming station drew local opposition. After sending a letter to the railroad, the Lackawanna sent residents of Wyoming that there were benefits of the newly rebuilt Millburn station and that they would not work harder on improving access to the Wyoming neighborhood. The newly-formed Wyoming Association came together in January 1908 as part of a response to the closure of Wyoming station. Their committee on transportation focused on getting a reversal of the closure. They attended a hearing of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners in Trenton on March 3. The Commissioners ordered the railroad to re-open Wyoming station and a new train station.
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