Convent Station (NJ Transit)

{{Short description|Rail station in New Jersey, US}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}}

{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Convent Station

| style = NJ Transit

| image = Convent Sta house jeh.jpg

| image_caption = Convent Station stationhouse

| address = Convent Road at Old Turnpike Road

| borough = Morris Township, New Jersey

| coordinates = {{Coord|40|46|44|N|74|26|36|W|display=inline,title|type:railwaystation}}

| owned = New Jersey Transit

| line =

| platform = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 2

| connections = {{bus icon}} NJ Transit Bus: {{NJ bus link|873|878}}

| parking = 580 spaces, 9 accessible spaces

| bicycle = Yes

| accessible = No

| passengers = 518 (average weekday){{cite report|url=https://archive.org/details/njt-boarding-data-q-1-2025-1|title=Average Weekday Rail Station Passenger Boardings History, FY 2019–2025|publisher=NJ Transit|date=2025|accessdate=June 1, 2025|via=Internet Archive|location=Newark, New Jersey}}

| pass_year = 2024

| pass_percent =

| pass_system =

| opened = 1867{{cite report|title=Housing Legislation of 1966: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency - United States Senate Eighty-Ninth Congress Second Session on Proposed Housing Legislation for 1966|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VgM3AQAAIAAJ|access-date=April 21, 2020|publisher=89th United States Congress|date=1967|page=1198}}

| rebuilt = 1913–1914{{Taber-DLW-20th-1|page=98}}

| electrified = December 18, 1930{{cite news |title=Lackawanna Electric Train Gets Ovations |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69036394/electric-morristown-december-19-1930/ |access-date=January 31, 2021 |work=The Paterson Morning Call |date=December 19, 1930 |page=34|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| code = 428 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western){{cite report|title=List of Station Numbers | work=Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad |date=1952 |page=2}}

| zone = 12

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=NJ Transit|line=Morristown|left=Morristown|right=Madison}}

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad|line=main|left=Morristown|right=Madison}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-zoom = 13

}}

Convent Station is a NJ Transit rail station on the Morristown Line. It is located on the grounds of Saint Elizabeth University in Convent Station, New Jersey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.njtransit.com/rg/rg_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TrainStationLookupFrom&selStation=30|title=New Jersey Transit|website=www.njtransit.com}}

The station first opened in 1867. A small wooden structure was built in 1876 and called Convent Station.{{cite web|last = Scheireik |first = Susan |title = If You're Thinking of Living in: Convent Station |work = The New York Times |date = March 14, 1993 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/14/realestate/if-youre-thinking-of-living-in-convent-station.html |access-date = March 25, 2019 |quote = A small wooden structure was built and named Convent Station in 1876. The sisters built a road to it, now Convent Road, and paid the salary of a station attendant. }} The existing station house, built in 1913–1914, has two side platforms, with the station house on the eastbound platform. A ticket office and waiting room is open weekdays. On the westbound track a brick waiting house stands. A former freight station is on the eastbound side. The main driveway into the college is located at a level crossing at the east end of the platform.

Nearby are several office complexes, including the headquarters of Honeywell to the north and Pfizer at Giralda Farms to the east. The Traction Line Recreation Trail, formerly a line of the Morris County Traction Company, runs along the northeastern side of the line.