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Radburn station

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Owned by
  
New Jersey Transit

Tracks
  
2

Fare zone
  
6

Area
  
1,200 m²

Added to NRHP
  
22 June 1984

Platforms
  
2 side platforms

Connections
  
NJT Bus: 145 and 171

Opened
  
1930

Owner
  
NJ Transit

Radburn station

Passengers (2012)
  
1,436 (average weekday)

Address
  
Fair Lawn Ave, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410, USA

Architectural style
  
Dutch Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
Broadway station, Plauderville station, Glen Rock–Main Line station, Port Jervis, Suffern station

Morning nj transit metro north woh trains at radburn station


Radburn is a New Jersey Transit train station in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, served by the Bergen County Line. It is located on Fair Lawn Avenue in the Radburn section of Fair Lawn, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of two New Jersey Transit train stations in Fair Lawn, the other being Broadway.

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The station was designed and built in 1930 by Clarence Stein as part of the Radburn development. It has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource. It is staffed with a station agent weekday mornings.

Nj transit train passing through radburn station


History

The location of the Radburn development was considered beneficial because of its location on the Erie Railroad with connections to Hoboken, Newark and Manhattan. The designers of the development saw the benefit of a suburban railroad station for planning throughout the New York Metropolitan Area. In July 1928, they proposed the Fairlawn Station Square with a depot that cost $60,000 (1928 USD) and would serve those who would be in the neighborhood after construction of the first 200 homers. The new depot would serve Suffern to the north and Hoboken to the southeast along with connections in the area.

A new railroad depot was constructed on the Bergen County Railroad in 1930. The depot replaced a wooden freight depot that served the area. This new station was designed by Clarence Stein in a Dutch Colonial Revival to keep the idea of modern and efficient and in a similar style of the Radburn neighborhood. The new Radburn station had three sections: a central area that contained the 640-foot (200 m) waiting room and ticket office. This new pavilion contained a sloping and overhanging roof. This south wing of the depot contained the restrooms, and the north wing contained the office of the track superviosr, the baggage room and a porch for customers. The depot had a sandstone design with 14-foot (4.3 m) vaulted ceilings with a slate roof and clapboarding siding.

References

Radburn station Wikipedia