"Commuters Want Old Train Line Reinstated". ^ a b "Rail Shuttle Buses To Transport Commuters Affected By Station Closures".^ "List of Station Names and Numbers".New York, New York: Montclair Railway Company.
A Description of the Country Adjacent to the Montclair Railway, Between Jersey City and Greenwood Lake. Homes on the Montclair Railway, for New York Business Men. West Arlington station – Second of two stations in Arlington for the Erie Lackawanna Railway.Rowe Street – Second of two additional stations that were removed with the Montclair Connection.Benson Street – First of two additional stations that were removed with the Montclair Connection.Following the accident, the town of Kearny began to have physical guards at the crossing during school hours. Both the train's fireman and conductor were later arraigned on charges of manslaughter. Īll three (Robert Floyd, 16, Rodney Murdock, 16, and Richard Collins, 15) were killed instantly. A boxcar parked in a siding next to the station blocked the victims from seeing the oncoming west bound express train. Thinking the warning lights were for a departing east bound train (towards Hoboken), the three students went around the barrier. The trio, on their way to the first day of the fall term, crossed the tracks at the Elm Street crossing next to the station despite the gate being down. On September 8, 1965, three Kearny High School students were struck and killed by a two car Erie Lackawanna train.
← Boonton Line weekdays toward Dover or Hackettstown ( Rowe Street) | ← Boonton Line weekdays toward Hoboken (Hoboken) →Īrlington station in 1910 during its days as an Erie Railroad station Arlington station closed, along with Rowe Street and Benson Street station in Glen Ridge on September 20, 2002 in advance of the opening of the Montclair Connection. The service continued into NJ Transit, becoming the Boonton Line. The line became part of the merged Greenwood Lake- Boonton Line in 1963. This line became and the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad, operated by the Erie Railroad until October 17, 1960. The station was one of two in Kearny for the line, with the other one at West Arlington. Railroad service through the Arlington neighborhood began on January 1, 1873 with the introduction of the Montclair Railway between Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City to Monks in West Milford. The next station to the east was Hoboken while the station to the west was Rowe Street in Bloomfield. The station, which contained two low-level side platforms, operated trains between Hoboken Terminal and locations west to Dover and Hackettstown. Located on Garafola Place between the Forest and Elm Street intersections, the station served trains on NJ Transit's Boonton Line. Arlington is a former commuter railroad train station in the Arlington section of Kearny, Hudson County, New Jersey.
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