Watchung Avenue (NJT station)

Infobox Station
name=Watchung Avenue
style=NJT Rail


image_size=300
image_caption=The station's building seen across the tracks.
address=
coordinates=coord|40.494677|-74.122544|display=inline,title|type:railwaystation
line=
other=NJT Bus: 28
DeCamp 66
platform=2 low level side platforms
levels=
tracks=2
parking=
bicycle=
baggage_check=
passengers=165,360
pass_year=2005
pass_percent=0
pass_system=
opened=1873
closed=
rebuilt=1904
electrified=30 September 2002
ADA=
code=
owned=New Jersey Transit
zone=5
former=Park Street
services=
mpassengers=

Watchung Avenue is a New Jersey Transit station at the intersection of Watchung Avenue, Watchung Plaza, and Park Street in Montclair, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. The Watchung Avenue station is on an elevated embankment between Watchung Plaza and Park Street. The out-bound platform facing the plaza, while the inbound platform and the station house are on the Park Street side. It was built in 1904 out of stone, weatherboard, shingle, slate, terra cotta, and wood for a cost of $4,700 to replace an earlier station called Park Street Station.fact|date=August 2008

Service from and to this station is as listed, with all service stopping at intermediate points. [ [http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/r0030.pdf Montclair-Boonton Line Schedule] , New Jersey Transit, accessed June 6, 2008.] [http://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TrainSchedulesFrom To-from train schedules, New Jersey Transit, accessed June 6, 2008.]
*from here
**Eastbound
***9 departures to Hoboken
***21 departures to New York
**Westbound
***2 departures to Dover
***3 departures to Lake Hopatcong
***3 departures to Mount Olive
***4 departures to Hackettstown
***23 departures to Montclair State University
*to here
**Eastbound
***1 arrival from Hackettstown
***3 arrivals from Mount Olive
***1 arrival from Lake Hopatcong
***24 arrivals from Montclair State University
**Westbound
***15 arrivals from Hoboken
***20 arrivals from New York 87% of Montclair Boonton trains stop here, from 5:20 am to 1:20 am

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