Bogota station

Bogota was a railroad station in Bogota, New Jersey, at River Road and Court Street, east of the Court Street Bridge over the Hackensack River. It was located on the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway Main Line, which provided passenger service between the 1870s and 1960s.[5]

Bogota
Bogota station in 2011.
Location
Bogota, New Jersey
Coordinates40.8772153°N 74.0339805°W / 40.8772153; -74.0339805
Owned byNew York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad
Line(s)NYS&W Main Line
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Other information
Station code1081 (Erie Railroad)[1]
History
Opened1872 (1872)[2]
ClosedJune 30, 1966 (June 30, 1966)[3]
ElectrifiedNot electrified
Key dates
September 6, 1958Station agency closed[4]
Services
Preceding station New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Following station
Hackensack
toward Stroudsburg
 Main Line Ridgefield Park
toward Susquehanna Transfer or Jersey City

History
James E. Bailey's photo of the Bogota station between 1908–1912

The Hoboken, Ridgefield and Paterson Railroad was chartered in 1866 to connect Paterson with the ports along the Hudson River waterfront.[6] The New Jersey Midland Railway (NJM) was formed in 1870 as a consolidation of several smaller railroads.[6]

By March 1872, the NJM line had been extended west from Hackensack, with stations at Maywood, Paterson (at Vreeland Avenue and two others) Wortendyke, and Butler, among others, to Newfoundland. It was later extended to Sparta, Newton, Blairstown and across the Delaware River to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Soon thereafter trains were running east and south to the Hudson River waterfront at Pennsylvania Railroad's depot in Jersey City using the Bergen Hill Cut.[2]

The NJ Midland was absorbed into the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad. In 1898, the NYSW became a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad, and made use of Erie's Pavonia Terminal.[7] Passenger service on the line was eliminated June 30, 1966; it is now used for exclusively for freight.[8]

The station was north of Hackensack Junction, where the NYSW heading southward ran parallel to the West Shore Railroad, now CSX River Subdivision.[9]

See also

References
  1. "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  2. Catlin, George L. (1872). "Homes on the Midland for New York Business Men". New York, New York: J. W. Pratt – via HathiTrust Digital Library. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Susquehanna Commuter Service Ends". The Herald-News. Passaic, New Jersey. July 1, 1966. p. 1. Retrieved October 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Suskie Ticket Office With Close in Bogota". The Herald-News. Passaic, New Jersey. August 27, 1959. p. 22. Retrieved March 13, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Bogota, NJ, History of Bogota". Borough of Bogota, NJ. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  6. Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States. Valuation reports, 33, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931
  7. Mohowski, Robert E. (2003), The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad, JHU Press, ISBN 9780801872228
  8. Model, Eric. "Hackensack as a long-time transit hub - Part 3 - Trains". Klusster. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  9. Kaminski, Edward S. (2010). New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad in New Jersey. Arcadia Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 9780738573670 – via Google Books.
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