Kingsland | |||||||||||||
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 Kingsland station facing northbound (towards Suffern) on the Hoboken-bound platform, with the station depot and Route 17 crossing overhead. | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 40°48′36″N 74°07′02″W / 40.8101°N 74.1172°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections | NJT Bus: 76 | ||||||||||||
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| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Parking | 19 spaces | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | September 12, 1870 (freight service)[1] December 14, 1870 (passenger service)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | –December 2, 1918[3][4] | ||||||||||||
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| 2012 | 453 (average weekday)[5] | ||||||||||||
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Kingsland is a railroad station on New Jersey Transit's Main Line. It is located under Ridge Road (Route 17) between New York and Valley Brook Avenues in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, and is one of two stations in Lyndhurst. The station is not staffed, and passengers use ticket vending machines (TVMs) located at street level to purchase tickets. The station is not handicapped-accessible. Originally part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Boonton Branch, the current Kingsland station was built in 1918.
- ^ Arch, Brad (January 1982). "The Morris and Essex Railroad" (PDF). Journal of New Jersey Postal History Society. X (1): 4–8. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ^ Lyon, Isaac S. (1873). Historical Discourse on Boonton, Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall, on the Evenings of September 21 and 28, and October 5, 1867. Newark, New Jersey: The Daily Journal Office. p. 55.
- ^ "New Kingsland Station Is Now Open-Modern Plan and Nicely Arranged". The Passaic Daily News. December 9, 1918. p. 3. Retrieved July 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New Lyndhurst Station Opened". The Plainfield Courier-News. December 3, 1918. p. 2. Retrieved July 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
