Hamilton station (NJ Transit)

Hamilton is an NJ Transit station on the Northeast Corridor Line, in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. Also at this station is the NJ Transit Hamilton Township bus garage.[2] The station is at 600 Sloan Avenue, off exit 65B of Interstate 295.

This article is about the NJT commuter rail station. For the NJT River Line station, see Hamilton Avenue station.
Hamilton
Location600 Sloan Avenue
Hamilton, NJ 08619
United States
Coordinates40°15′19″N 74°42′14″W
Owned byNew Jersey Transit
Line(s)Northeast Corridor
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Connections NJ Transit Bus: 606 and 608
Construction
Parking2066 space garage, 750 space surface overflow lot
Bicycle facilitiesBike lockers
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone20
History
Opened1999
ElectrifiedYes
Passengers
20125,019 (average weekday)[1]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Trenton
Terminus
 Northeast Corridor Line Princeton Junction
toward New York Penn Station

Hamilton Transit Center opened February 16, 1999 as an intermodal complex.[3] It is next to a former American Standard factory that was redeveloped into an office building.

Peak express trains make the trip to New York Penn Station in about an hour, while off-peak express trains take an hour and fifteen minutes.[4]

The Hamilton station received national media attention in 2019, when it was reported that commuters are regularly locked out of the station building on early mornings. The building, which houses a ticket office, waiting room, and Dunkin' Donuts shop, is to open at 4:30 a.m. every day with the opening of the donut shop; a Dunkin' Donuts employee is contracted to open the doors of the building at that time. The ticket office opens later each day, at 6 a.m.,[5] and the platforms and a small enclosed waiting area are always kept open.[6][7]

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms connected by a passageway over the tracks. Amtrak's Northeast Corridor lines bypass the station via the inner tracks.

M Mezzanine Connection between platforms, station building
Ground/
platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 4 ←      Northeast Corridor Line toward Trenton (Terminus)
←      Amtrak services do not stop here
Track 3 ←      Amtrak services do not stop here
Track 2 ←      Amtrak services do not stop here →
Track 1 ←      Amtrak services do not stop here →
←      Northeast Corridor Line toward New York (Princeton Junction) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Street level Station building, parking, buses

References
  1. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. December 27, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  2. "Bus Terminals and Garages". NJ Transit. Archived from the original on March 27, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  3. Peterson, Iver (April 18, 1992). "Trenton Sees Proposed Train Station Stealing Its Business". The New York Times. New York, New York: Time Warner. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  4. "North East Corridor Line Official Schedule" (PDF). NJ Transit.
  5. "NJ Transit blames Dunkin Donuts for late opening station entrance". Fox 5 NY. March 22, 2019.
  6. Guse, Clayton (March 22, 2019). "Why Does Dunkin' Donuts Help Run This Transit Station?". Governing. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020.
  7. "NJ TRANSIT Blames Local Donut Shop For Not Opening Their Station On Time". WLNY CBS New York. March 22, 2019.


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