Owned by New Jersey Transit Opened 1840 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture Tracks 2 | Structure type Canopy Area 6,100 m² Added to NRHP 22 June 1984 | |
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Connections Somerset County Transportation: DASH Address Bound Brook, NJ 08805, United States Similar Annandale station, Highland Avenue station, Benson Street station, Fairmount Avenue station, Gladstone Station |
Nj transit at bound brook station
Bound Brook is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Bound Brook, New Jersey. The station building on the north side of the tracks is now a restaurant; the other station building on the south side is now privately owned. A pedestrian tunnel connects the south and north sides of the tracks.
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The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line, the railroad's main freight line into the New York City area – built and formerly owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad until merged into Conrail – is a few yards south of the south platform and is used by around 25 freight trains a day.
The station at 350 East Main Street was built in 1913 as a replacement station. This was a part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey Elevation Project from Elizabeth to Somerville (grade crossing removal). The station on the north side of the tracks replaced the original station (circa 1847-8) that was located on the south side of the tracks as built by the railroad then known as The Elizabethtown & Somerville Railroad.
Bound Brook station was listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.