Towaco station

NJ Transit rail station

40°55′23″N 74°20′36″W / 40.9230°N 74.3434°W / 40.9230; -74.3434Owned byNJ TransitPlatforms1 side platformTracks1Connections

NJT Bus: 871

Lakeland: 46
(limited Lakeland service)ConstructionAccessibleYesOther informationFare zone11^[1]HistoryOpenedSeptember 12, 1870 (freight service)^[2]
December 14, 1870 (passenger service)^[3]Rebuilt1910–1911,^[4] 2000^[5]Previous namesWhitehall (–1905)^[4]Passengers201780 (average weekday)^[6]^[7] Services

Preceding station	NJ Transit			Following station
Boonton toward Hackettstown		Montclair-Boonton Line limited service		Lincoln Park toward New York or Hoboken

Former services

Preceding station	Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad			Following station
Montville toward Dover		Boonton Branch		Lincoln Park toward Hoboken

Location

Towaco is a station on NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line located between U.S. Route 202 and Whitehall Road in the eponymous neighborhood of Montville Township, Morris County, New Jersey. The station opened as Whitehall in 1870 along the Boonton Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and assumed its current name in 1905.

History

The station was first opened by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad as Whitehall. Renamed to Towaco in 1905,^[8] a new depot was built in 1924 by the railroad with help from architect F.G. Neiss.^[9] The depot replaced one built in the 1910s^[4] and demolished in 1970.^[9] NJ Transit rebuilt the structure in 2000.^[9]

Station layout

The station has a single side platform on a single track, facing eastward. There are also two parking lots with 220 spots for free use. There is also a 600-square-foot (56 m²) brick shelter on the platform.

Bibliography

Florio, Patricia (2017). Images of America: Montville Township: Celebrating 150 Years. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781467126403.
Lyon, Isaac S. (1873). Historical Discourse on Boonton, Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the Evenings of September 21 and 28, and October 5, 1867. Newark, New Jersey: The Daily Journal Office. Retrieved April 16, 2020.

References

^ "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
^ Arch, Brad (January 1982). "The Morris and Essex Railroad" (PDF). Journal of New Jersey Postal History Society. X (1): 4–8. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
^ Lyon 1873, p. 55.
^ ^a ^b ^c Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 766. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
^ Florio 2017, p. 81.
^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
^ "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
^ Yanosey, Robert J. (2007). Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color). Vol. 1:Hoboken to Dover. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 52–53, 80. ISBN 978-1-58248-214-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c Pope, Clementina (September 12, 1999). "Towaco Train Station Work to Begin". The Daily Record. p. 17. Retrieved April 29, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.