Ramsey | ||||||||||||||
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 Train departing for Hoboken, 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Main Street at Erie Plaza, Ramsey, Bergen County, New Jersey 07446 | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°03′24″N 74°08′32″W / 41.0568°N 74.1422°W | |||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit | |||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||
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| Station code | 2323 (Erie Railroad)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 12[2] | |||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||
| Opened | October 19, 1848[3][4] | |||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1868[5] | |||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 559 (average weekday)[6] | |||||||||||||
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Ramsey is one of two railroad stations operated by New Jersey Transit in the borough of Ramsey, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Located on the Main Line and Bergen County Line, Ramsey station is also unofficially known as Ramsey – Main Street due to the opening of Ramsey Route 17 station to the north in 2004.
History
Railroad service to the Ramsey section of Hohokus Township began on October 19, 1848. The Paterson and Ramapo Railroad began service between Jersey City and Suffern, where connection was made to the Erie Railroad main line. The station was built on land donated by Peter J. Ramsey, a local landowner. The Erie Railroad, who took over service, built a new depot at Ramsey in 1868, making it the oldest active passenger depot for commuter service in the state of New Jersey. (Service at the Long-a-Coming Depot in Berlin, which is older than 1868, ended in the 1960s).
Station layout
This station has two tracks, each with a low-level side platform, and a small parking lot on the south side of Main Street (County Route 2). The station is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
| Ground/ Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Track 2 | ← Main Line, Bergen County Line toward Suffern (Ramsey Route 17) ← Port Jervis Line does not stop here | |
| Track 1 | Port Jervis Line does not stop here Main Line, Bergen County Line toward Hoboken (Allendale) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Street level | Station building, ticket machines, parking | |
See also
References
- ↑ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
- ↑ "Main and Bergen County Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2002. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
- ↑ "Synopsis of Erie History". The Herald-News. Passaic, New Jersey. April 2, 1963. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved February 28, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Cheslow, Jerry (September 7, 2003). "If You're Thinking of Living In/Ramsey, N.J.; Small-Town Life Survives the Pressures". The New York Times. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
- ↑ Pangburn, John (April 30, 1979). "Ramsey's Durable Station". The Bergen Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. p. 25. Retrieved March 2, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "Here Are New Jersey Transit's Most, Least-Used Train Stations". patch.com. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
External links
Media related to Ramsey (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons
- Turn of the century postcard of the train station
- Station from Main Street from Google Maps Street View
- Noble, Tom (March 5, 2015). "Federal agency ranks Ramsey train crossing among most dangerous in state". www.northjersey.com. Retrieved March 10, 2015.