Morristown is a New Jersey Transit rail station on the Morristown Line. It is located in Morristown and serves an average of 1,800 passengers on a typical weekday. The historic station building (on the eastbound side) opened in November 1915. A station agent and waiting room are available 7 days a week. The station's interior was featured in Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time video (1984). Just west of the station, at Baker Interlocking the Morristown & Erie Railway branches off the NJT line. The M&E's offices and shop are located here.
Morristown Station | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 122 Morris Avenue Morristown, NJ 07076 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°47′50″N 74°28′27″W / 40.79722°N 74.47417°W | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Lua error: expandTemplate: template "NJT color" does not exist. | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 455 spaces | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1915 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2005 | 521,820  0% (NJT) | ||||||||||
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Morristown received mini-high level platforms in 2005 to make the station handicapped accessible. The eastbound platform is located near Morris Street and the westbound platform is located just west of the old freight house. Morristown station has 455 parking spaces spread across three different lots located near the station.
Along with rail service, there are four connection bus routes at Morristown station. These are the MCM1, MCM2, MCM3, and MCM10 bus lines, which operate bus service across Morris County.
History
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A predecessor station was the terminus of the Morris and Essex Railroad, using the same railbed, constructed in 1835.[1]
Ultimately the line extended to the east to the Hudson River connecting to New York by Ferry.
The line was previously used by a series of Lackawanna and Erie Lackawanna railway companies from the 1930s-1960s.
Footnotes
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