Cranford (NJT station)

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Cranford
Station statistics
Lines	Raritan Valley Line
Connections	NJT Bus: 59 and 113 Olympia Trails: Westfield Commuter Service
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2 (formerly 6)
Other information
Accessible
Fare zone	7
Traffic
Passengers (2005)	267,800 ▬ 0%
Services
Preceding station   New Jersey Transit   Following station Garwood toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Roselle Park toward Newark Penn

Raritan Valley Line
Legend Hoboken Terminal (weekends) Newark Penn Station Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Union Roselle Park Cranford Garwood Westfield Fanwood Netherwood Plainfield Dunellen Bound Brook Bridgewater West Trenton Line Somerville Raritan North Branch Whitehouse Lebanon Annandale High Bridge Glen Gardner Hampton Ludlow Bloomsbury Phillipsburg

Cranford is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Cranford, New Jersey. The current Cranford station was built in the mid 1930s by the Central Railroad of New Jersey on an embankment as part of a grade crossing elimination project. Three stations preceded the current building. The station building has a ticket office, waiting area, and offices. The platforms are accessed by stairs and elevators.

Following the implementation of the Aldene Plan in 1967, the station served as the western terminus of the Cranford-Bayonne Shuttle. The station is the eastern-most station on the old main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey still serving as station. Like several other New Jersey Transit lines a once a week freight train can be seen in the early morning hours at Cranford station.

[edit] External links

• world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line
• Photo and brief narrated history of earlier Cranford station by Cranford resident Bernie Wagenblast