Morristown (NJT station)

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Coordinates: 40°47′50″N 74°28′27″W / 40.79722, -74.47417

Morristown

Train #6648 enters the Morristown Railroad Station, due east to New York Penn Station.

Station statistics

Address

122 Morris St.
Morristown, NJ 07076

Lines

Morristown Line

Connections

NJT Bus: MCM2, MCM3
Community Coach: 77

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Parking

455 spaces

Other information

Opened

1915

Accessible

Fare zone

Traffic

Passengers (2007)

577,720 ▲ 4% (NJT)

Services

Preceding station		New Jersey Transit		Following station
Morris Plains toward Hackettstown		Morristown Line		Convent Station toward Hoboken or New York Penn

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station (a.k.a. Morristown Railroad Station)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Map of the United States
Location:	Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Added to NRHP:	1980
NRHP Reference#:	#80002514

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 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 three connection bus routes at Morristown station, the MCM2 and MCM3 and the Community Coach #77 line, with the MCM1 and MCM10 stopping a few blocks away.

[edit] 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. The 1915-built Delaware, Lackawanna and Western station house has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980.^[2]