Metuchen (NJT station)

Metuchen
File:Metuchen Station (12019787576).jpg Looking towards New York on the inbound platform.
Location	Main Street & Woodbridge Avenue Metuchen, NJ United States
Coordinates
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Northeast Corridor
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	NJT Bus: 810, 813, and 819
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	11
History
Opened	1888
Rebuilt	1979
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	3,810 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Edison toward Trenton Northeast Corridor Line Metropark toward New York Penn Station   Former services   Pennsylvania Railroad Stelton toward Chicago Main Line Menlo Park toward New York City or Exchange Place

Metuchen is a New Jersey Transit station on the Northeast Corridor Line, in Metuchen, New Jersey. It is on Main Street between Pennsylvania and Woodbridge Avenues; the platforms are on an overpass over Main Street. The New York City-bound platform and station office are accessible from Woodbridge Avenue, while the Trenton-bound platform is accessible from Pennsylvania Avenue. There is a station office but no station agents and passengers must use a ticket machine. There is a newsstand in the waiting room of the northbound platform that operates on weekday mornings during rush hour. A private concierge service operated between 2001–2003, but is now closed. There is, however, a taxi stand on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the station.

History

File:FWPNW026MetuchenNJSA0368B.jpg

The station, c. 1940

The station was built in 1888 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and it was significantly renovated in 1979.

External links

• NJT rail station information page for Metuchen
• DepartureVision real time train information for Metuchen
• NJT Northeast Corridor Line schedule
• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons