Radburn station

Radburn is a New Jersey Transit train station in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, served by the Bergen County Line. It is on Fair Lawn Avenue in the Radburn section of Fair Lawn, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of two New Jersey Transit train stations in Fair Lawn, the other being Broadway.

Radburn
The 1929 station depot at Radburn is on the left in May 2014.
Coordinates40.9396°N 74.1217°W / 40.9396; -74.1217
Owned byNew Jersey Transit
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections NJT Bus: 145 and 171
Other information
Fare zone6[1]
History
OpenedOctober 1, 1881[2][3]
RebuiltApril–October 1929[4][5]
Passengers
20121,436 (average weekday)[6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
Glen Rock–Boro Hall
toward Suffern
 Bergen County Line Broadway
toward Hoboken
Former services
Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station
Glen Rock-Bergen Line
toward Ridgewood
 Bergen County Railroad Fair Lawn
toward Jersey City
Radburn-Fair Lawn Station
The depot at Radburn in May 2014.
LocationPollitt Drive, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Coordinates40°56′22″N 74°7′19″W
Area0.3 acres (0.1 ha)
Built1929
ArchitectClarence S. Stein
Architectural styleDutch Colonial Revival
MPSOperating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.84002580[7]
NJRHP No.483[8]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 22, 1984
Designated NJRHPMarch 17, 1984

The station was designed and built in 1929 by Clarence Stein, as part of the Radburn development. It 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.[7][8][9][10] It is staffed with a station agent on weekday mornings.

History
The former station depot at Radburn, when the station was known as Fair Lawn

The location of the Radburn development was considered beneficial because of its location on the Erie Railroad with connections to Hoboken, Newark and Manhattan. The designers of the development saw the benefit of a suburban railroad station for planning throughout the New York Metropolitan Area. In July 1928, they proposed the Fairlawn Station Square with a depot that cost $60,000 (1928 USD) and would serve those who would be in the neighborhood after construction of the first 200 homers. The new depot would serve Suffern to the north and Hoboken to the southeast along with connections in the area.[11]

A new railroad depot was constructed on the Bergen County Railroad in 1929. The depot replaced a wooden freight depot that served the area. This new station was designed by Clarence Stein in a Dutch Colonial Revival to keep the idea of modern and efficient and in a similar style of the Radburn neighborhood. The new Radburn station had three sections: a central area that contained the 640-foot (200 m) waiting room and ticket office. This new pavilion contained a sloping and overhanging roof. This south wing of the depot contained the restrooms, and the north wing contained the office of the track supervisor, the baggage room and a porch for customers. The depot had a sandstone design with 14-foot (4.3 m) vaulted ceilings with a slate roof and clapboarding siding.[11]

Station layout

The station has two tracks, each with a low-level side platform.

Ground/
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Track 1 ←      Bergen County Line toward Waldwick or Suffern (Glen Rock – Boro Hall)
←      Port Jervis Line limited service toward Port Jervis (Glen Rock – Boro Hall)
Track 2 ←      Port Jervis Line limited service toward Hoboken (Broadway) →
←      Bergen County Line toward Hoboken (Broadway) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Street level Station building, ticket machines, parking

See also

Bibliography
  • Clayton, W. Woodford (1882). History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Everts & Peck. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  • Poor, Henry Varnum (1884). Poor's Manual of Railroads. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: H.V. & H.W. Poor. Retrieved July 28, 2020.

References
  1. "Main and Bergen County Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  2. Poor 1884, p. 167.
  3. Clayton 1882, p. 203.
  4. "Plan New Railroad Station Serve the Town of Radburn". The Paterson Morning Call. April 15, 1929. p. 2. Retrieved July 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Radburn Railroad Station". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. October 14, 1929. p. 26. Retrieved July 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
  7. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  8. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  9. Radburn New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
  10. Bergen County Listings on the National Register of Historic Places (Building #84002580)
  11. Edith B. Wallace; Paula S. Reed (June 2004). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Radburn" (PDF). National Park Service. pp. 11, 41. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
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