Mount Olive (NJT station)

Coordinates: 40°54′26.7″N 74°43′50.8″W / 40.907417°N 74.730778°W / 40.907417; -74.730778

Mount Olive
The Mount Olive station facing to the east and Netcong station. There is no signage denoting the station.
Station statistics
Address	Waterloo Valley Road, Mount Olive, New Jersey
Lines	Morristown Line   Montclair-Boonton Line
Platforms	1 low-level side platform
Tracks	1
Parking	23 parking spaces
Other information
Opened	1854
Rebuilt	1994
Electrified	No
Accessible
Owned by	New Jersey Transit (station) Norfolk Southern (trackage)
Fare zone	19[1]
Formerly	Waterloo
Traffic
Passengers (2010)	36 (average weekday)  25%
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Hackettstown Terminus Montclair-Boonton Line Netcong toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Morristown Line Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Hackettstown toward Portland or Phillipsburg Old Main Line Netcong toward Lake Hopatcong

Mount Olive Station is a New Jersey Transit station in Mount Olive, New Jersey, located in the International Trade Center. The station, located on the side of Waterloo Village 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 Pennsylvania Station at 34th Street in New York City, although Montclair-Boonton trains require a transfer at Montclair State University Station at Little Falls for electrified service to New York.

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Waterloo station site, 2008

Originally, trains along both lines terminated at Netcong Station in Netcong. In 1994, stations were constructed along Norfolk Southern's Washington Secondary (to Washington) 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.^[2] The Washington Secondary was the original alignment of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Main Line via Washington and Portland, Pennsylvania.^[3] Near Mount Olive station was once the Waterloo station, named after local Waterloo, New Jersey. Waterloo station was first built in 1854^[4] and remained in service until being replaced by a crude shelter in the 1920s. In 1946, this shelter burned down and as a result, was the only regular stop that did not have a structure to service passengers.^[5]

See also

• Sussex Railroad

References

1. ^ "Montclair-Boonton Line Timetables". Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. pp. 1–4. http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0030.pdf. Retrieved September 9, 2010. 
2. ^ Sanderson, Bill (November 6, 1994). "People Back Home Know Best". The Record (Bergen County, New Jersey: The Record of Bergen County). 
3. ^ Yanosey, Robert J. (2007). Lackawanna Railroad Facilities (In Color). Volume 2: Dover to Scranton. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc.. 
4. ^ Wright, Kevin W. (2000). Newton and the Iron Horse: A History of the Sussex Railroad. Accessed online: 3 December 2007.
5. ^ Taber III, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend (1981). Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Nineteenth Century. Volume 3. Muncy, Pennsylvania: Thomas T. Taber III. ISBN 9780960339846. 

External links

Media related to Mount Olive (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• NJT rail station information page for Mount Olive
• DepartureVision real time train information for Mount Olive
  • Morris and Essex Line schedule (Morristown Line & Gladstone Branch)
  • Montclair-Boonton Line schedule