Towaco station

Towaco is a train station on New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line in the Towaco section of Montville Township, New Jersey. The station is located on U.S. Route 202 and Whitehall Roads in Montville.

Towaco
The Towaco station platform in September 2013, facing eastbound along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The shelter for buses can be seen to the right.
Coordinates	40.9230°N 74.3434°W
Owned by	NJ Transit
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	NJT Bus: 871 Lakeland: 46 (limited Lakeland service)
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	11[1]
History
Opened	September 12, 1870 (freight service)[2] December 14, 1870 (passenger service)[3]
Rebuilt	1910–1911,[4] 2000[5]
Previous names	Whitehall (–1905)[4]
Passengers
2017	80 (average weekday)[6][7]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Boonton toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line Lincoln Park toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Montville toward Dover Boonton Branch Lincoln Park toward Hoboken

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. 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) shelter on the platform for riders.

Ground/ Platform level	Outbound/Inbound	←      Montclair-Boonton Line PM rush hours toward Hackettstown (Boonton) ←      Montclair-Boonton Line AM rush hours toward Hoboken or New York (Lincoln Park) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Street level	Ticket machine and parking

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

1. "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
2. 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.
3. Lyon 1873, p. 55.
4. Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 766. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
5. Florio 2017, p. 81.
6. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
7. "How Many Riders Use NJ Transit's Hoboken Train Station?". Hoboken Patch. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
8. Yanosey, Robert J. (2007). Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color). 1:Hoboken to Dover. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 52–53, 80. ISBN 1-58248-214-4.
9. Pope, Clementina (September 12, 1999). "Towaco Train Station Work to Begin". The Daily Record. p. 17. Retrieved April 29, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

Media related to Towaco (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Station from Google Maps Street View