New Brunswick station

New Brunswick is a railroad station in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It serves Amtrak and NJ Transit trains on the Northeast Corridor. The station is located at the intersection of Easton Avenue and French and Albany Streets, near the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University.

For the former Marconi station, see New Brunswick Marconi Station.
New Brunswick
The 1904 station building as seen from Albany Street
LocationFrench & Albany Streets, New Brunswick, New Jersey
United States
Owned byNJT
Line(s)Northeast Corridor
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Connections NJT Bus: 810, 811, 813, 815, 818
Rutgers Campus Buses[1]
Brunsquick Shuttles[2]
DASH 1 & 2[3]
Suburban Trails: Line 100
OurBus Prime
Construction
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeNBK
Fare zone14[4]
History
OpenedJanuary 1, 1838[5]
RebuiltOctober 1903[6]–September 28, 1904[7]
ElectrifiedDecember 8, 1932[8]
Passengers
20124,976 (average weekday) [9] (NJT)
FY 20167,857[10]  6.1% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Princeton Junction
toward Harrisburg
 Keystone Service Metropark
toward New York
Princeton Junction
toward Norfolk, Newport News or Roanoke
 Northeast Regional Metropark
toward Boston South or Springfield
Princeton Junction
toward Savannah
 Palmetto Metropark
One-way operation
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Jersey Avenue
toward Trenton
 Northeast Corridor Line Edison
toward New York Penn Station
Former services
Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station
Princeton Junction
toward Chicago
 Main Line Stelton
toward New York or Exchange Place
Adams
toward Chicago
Terminus New Brunswick Line
Voorhees
toward East Millstone
 Millstone Branch Terminus
New Brunswick Station
New Brunswick station in May 1985.
Coordinates40°29′47″N 74°26′47″W
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built1903 (1903)
ArchitectWilliam H. Brown, chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad[11]
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Georgian Revival
MPSOperating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.84002732[12]
NJRHP No.1875 [13]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 22, 1984
Designated NJRHPMarch 17, 1984

History
New Brunswick station in 1910
Northeast Corridor at New Brunswick looking Northeast

Train service to New Brunswick was begun by the New Jersey Railroad, northbound in 1838 and southbound in 1839. Its successor, Pennsylvania Railroad, built the current station in 1903 when the tracks were raised above street level.[14] Service was eventually taken over by Penn Central and then Amtrak and New Jersey Transit. In 2005, the Clocker trains, a popular commuter service serving the station, were transferred to NJT. In October 2015 the southbound Palmetto began stopping here.

The depot was designed in the Colonial Revival style and includes walls of light brown brick, hipped roof with gabled dormers and a deep cornice with dentil molding at its base. Brick quoins at the corners of the building convey an impression of strength and solidity. Windows display a popular Georgian Revival pattern of 9-over-1. Sills are incorporated into a stone belt course that wraps around the building, while lintels are embellished with prominent keystones.[15] The design is similar to that of the Chester Transportation Center in Pennsylvania.

The station building 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.[16][17]

Urban transit hub

In 2005 the station was designated the core of the New Brunswick transit village, a smart growth initiative to promote transit-oriented development which can include government incentives to encourage compact, higher density, mixed-use development within walking distance of the station.[18][19]

In addition to New Jersey Transit bus operations and Rutgers Campus buses, the station is served by local shuttles known as Brunsquick and DASH. Studies are underway to develop the New Brunswick Bus Rapid Transit system, of which the station would be the hub. NJ 18 and NJ 27, which intersect at the station, would function as the two major corridors for a bus network that would connect downtown, residential neighborhoods, the five campuses of Rutgers in the city and Piscataway, and proximate communities.[20][21]

New Brunswick is one of nine cities in New Jersey designated as eligible for Urban Transit Hub Tax Credits by the state's Economic Development Authority. Developers who invest a minimum of $50 million within 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of a train station are eligible for pro-rated tax credit.[22][23] The Gateway is one such project located just to the north of station[24] and connected by a new pedestrian bridge, creating a direct link to the Rutgers campus.[25][26][27] It is the tallest building in the city[28] and one of several new projects in the vicinity of the station that has led to a revitalization of the city's downtown surrounding it.[26][27] Another planned building, a 16-story residential tower at Somerset Street[29][30] located one block north of the station, is the second UTHTC-approved project in the city.[31]

High-speed rail corridor

In August 2011 the United States Department of Transportation obligated $450 million to a six-year project to improve 24 miles (39 km) of the Northeast Corridor between New Brunswick and Trenton. The Next Generation High-Speed project is to upgrade electrical power, signals, and overhead catenary wires to improve reliability and increase speed to 160 mph (260 km/h), and with new trains to 186 mph (299 km/h).[32]

Station layout

The station has two high-level side platforms. Most of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor services bypass the station via the inner tracks, except for select Keystone and Northeast Regional trains and the weekday westbound Palmetto.[33]

P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 4 ←      Northeast Corridor Line toward Jersey Avenue or Trenton (Jersey Avenue or Princeton Junction)
←      Northeast Regional limited service toward Northern Virginia (Princeton Junction)
←      Keystone Service limited service toward Harrisburg (Princeton Junction)
←      Palmetto weekday service toward Savannah (Princeton Junction)
Track 3 ←      Northeast Corridor Line PM express service does not stop here
←      Amtrak services do not stop here
Track 2 ←      Amtrak services do not stop here →
←      Northeast Corridor Line AM express service does not stop here →
Track 1 ←      Keystone Service limited service toward New York (Metropark) →
←      Northeast Regional limited service toward Boston (Metropark) →
←      Northeast Corridor Line toward New York (Edison) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
G Street level Station building, parking, buses

See also

Bibliography
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References
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  2. "Middlesex County Area Transit (MCAT) Shuttle Routes". Middlesex County. 2012. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
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  4. "Northeast Corridor Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  5. Wall 1921, p. 295.
  6. "Contract Out for P.R.R. Station". The Daily Home News. September 15, 1803. p. 1. Retrieved June 3, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
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  8. "Electric Train Service Started by P.R.R. Today". The Daily Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. December 8, 1932. pp. 1, 11. Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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  12. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
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  17. New Brunswick New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
  18. "West Windsor gains Transit Village designation Township becomes 24th Transit Village in New Jersey". NJDOT. January 5, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
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  20. "Greater New Brunswick Are Bus Rapid Transit" (PDF). NJTPA. May 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
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  26. Miller, Paige (May 7, 2012). "In New Brunswick, one development tackles multiple community needs". Smart Growth America. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
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