Grove Street station (Newark Light Rail)

The Grove Street is a surface-level light rail stop in the Watsessing section of Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey. The station is the western terminus of the Newark City Subway section of the New Jersey Transit Newark Light Rail that heads to Penn Station in Newark. The vehicle maintenance facility is east of the station. Grove Street is a single island platform station with two tracks and is accessible for handicapped people as part of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. A 160-space park and ride lot is located one block from the station, after the loop track for the maintenance facility.[1] Grove Street is also near the Watsessing Avenue station of New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line.

Grove Street
The Grove Street station in April 2015.
Location	224 Grove Street Bloomfield, New Jersey, 07003
Coordinates	40.7804°N 74.1879°W / 40.7804; -74.1879
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	1 Island platform
Tracks	4
Connections	NJT Bus: 90 (in front of station) 11, 28, 29, 72 (on Bloomfield Avenue)
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	June 22, 2002[1]
Electrified	750 V (DC) Overhead lines
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Terminus Grove Street – Newark Penn Silver Lake toward Newark Penn Station
Former services Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Prospect Street–East Orange toward West Orange Orange Branch Bloomfield Avenue Silver Lake toward Forest Hill

Grove Street station opened on June 22, 2002 part of an extension from Branch Brook Park station in Newark to Bloomfield, with a middle stop at Silver Lake in Belleville.[1] The tracks however follow the ROW of the former Erie Railroad Orange Branch, which went from the Forest Hill section of Newark to West Orange. The former Bloomfield Avenue station was located one block west of the current Grove Street station. Service on that branch ended on May 20, 1955.[2]