Mount Olive station

{{Short description|NJ Transit rail station}}

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

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

{{Infobox station

| name=Mt. Olive

| style=NJ Transit

| image=Mount Olive station.jpg

| image_caption=Mount Olive station facing to the east and Netcong station. There is no signage denoting the station other than the singular sign on Waterloo Valley Road.

| address=Waterloo Valley Road, Budd Lake, New Jersey 07828

| coordinates={{coord|40|54|26.7|N|74|43|50.8|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-NJ|display=inline,title}}

| line=Morristown Line

| other=

| platform=1 side platform

| levels=

| tracks=1

| parking=23 parking spaces

| bicycle=

| passengers = 10 (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=January 16, 1854 (Morris and Essex Railroad){{cite web |last1=Davis |first1=J.M. |title=Letter to the New York Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society |url=http://ppolinks.com/hoboken32340/2014.013.0114_DL&W_excursion_package_1938.pdf |publisher=The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company |access-date=April 7, 2020 |page=8}}{{sfn|New Jersey Comptroller of the Treasury|1856|p=31}}
October 31, 1994 (NJ Transit){{cite news |last1=Ciliberti |first1=Dino F. |title=Train Service Starts Tomorrow to Mount Olive, Hackettstown |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29475083/mount_olivehackettstown_october_30/ |access-date=March 13, 2019 |work=The Daily Record |date=October 30, 1994 |page=E7 |location=Morristown, New Jersey|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| closed=April 24, 1960{{cite web |title=Lackawanna Railroad Timetables |url=http://www.jon-n-bevliles.net/RAILROAD/PTTs/dlw042460.pdf |publisher=Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad |access-date=April 20, 2020 |location=New York, New York |page=14|date=April 24, 1960}}{{cite web |title=Lackawanna Railroad Timetables |url=http://www.jon-n-bevliles.net/RAILROAD/PTTs/dlw010160.pdf|publisher=Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad |access-date=April 20, 2020 |location=New York, New York |page=14|date=January 1, 1960}}

| rebuilt=

| electrified=No

| accessible=

| code=

| owned=New Jersey Transit (station and trackage)

| zone=19{{cite web|url=http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0030.pdf|title=Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables|date=May 23, 2010|publisher=New Jersey Transit Rail Operations|pages=1–4|access-date=September 9, 2010|location=Newark, New Jersey|archive-date=July 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728054346/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0030.pdf|url-status=dead}}

| former=Waterloo

| services= {{Adjacent stations|system1=NJ Transit

|line1=Montclair-Boonton|left1=Hackettstown|right1=Netcong|note-mid1=limited service

|line2=Morristown|left2=Hackettstown|right2=Netcong|note-mid2=limited service

}}

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad|line1=Old Main|left1=Hackettstown|right1=Netcong

|line2=Sussex Branch|left2=Cranberry Lake|right2=Netcong

}}

| mpassengers=

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#000 |zoom=14 }}

}}

Mount Olive is an NJ Transit station in Mount Olive, New Jersey, located in the International Trade Center. The station, located on the side of Waterloo Valley Road, services trains for both the Montclair–Boonton Line and the Morristown Line along trackage owned by Norfolk Southern. The line is not electrified from Hackettstown to Dover, where passengers can transfer to an electric Morristown Line train via Summit or a diesel Montclair-Boonton train via Wayne and Montclair. Trains along both lines head to Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey or New York Penn Station at 34th Street in New York City, although Montclair-Boonton trains require a transfer at Montclair State University or Newark Broad Street for electrified service to New York. It is also the least-used station in the NJ Transit commuter rail network.

History

File:Waterloo-Station-Waterloo-NJ.JPG Waterloo station site, 2008]]

After the termination of Boonton Line passenger service to Washington in 1966, service terminated at Netcong station in Netcong. In 1994, stations were constructed along Conrail's Washington Secondary at Mount Olive and Hackettstown, extending the line into Warren County and providing rail service to the International Trade Center (ITC) along with tourist attraction, Waterloo Village. Service took effect on November 5, 1994 from Netcong to Hackettstown.{{cite news|title=People Back Home Know Best|last=Sanderson|first=Bill|date=November 6, 1994|work=The Record|publisher=The Record of Bergen County|location=Bergen County, New Jersey}} The Washington Secondary was the original alignment of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Main Line via Washington and Portland, Pennsylvania.{{cite book|last=Yanosey|first=Robert J.|title=Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color)|publisher=Morning Sun Books Inc.|location=Scotch Plains, New Jersey|year=2007|volume=2: Dover to Scranton}} Near Mount Olive station was once the Waterloo station, named after local Waterloo, New Jersey. Waterloo station was first built in 1854Wright, Kevin W. (2000). [http://www.newtonnj.net/Pages/railroad.htm Newton and the Iron Horse: A History of the Sussex Railroad]. Accessed online: December 3, 2007. and remained in service until being torn down in the 1920s. It continued to receive passengers, and was the only regular stop with neither a building nor even a shelter.{{Taber-DLW-20th-2|page=769}}

Station layout

Mount Olive has one track and one mini-high side platform.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

See also

Bibliography

  • {{cite book|author1=New Jersey Comptroller of the Treasury |title=Annual Statements of the Railroad and Canal Companies of the State of New Jersey |date=1856 |publisher=Office of "True American" |location=Trenton, New Jersey |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101066784990&view=1up&seq=35 |access-date=April 7, 2020}}

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