Mountain View station (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad)

Mountain View
The former station in Mountain View in February 2011.
General information
LocationParish and Pal Drives, Wayne, New Jersey 07470
Coordinates40°54′48.8″N 74°15′36.6″W / 40.913556°N 74.260167°W / 40.913556; -74.260167
Line(s)Boonton Branch
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks4
History
OpenedMay 12, 1877[1]
ClosedOctober 25, 1963
Rebuilt1909[2]
ElectrifiedNot electrified
Services
Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station
Lincoln Park
toward Dover
Boonton Branch Totowa–Little Falls
toward Hoboken

Mountain View was a station on the Boonton Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Located in the Mountain View section of Wayne Township, New Jersey, the station was at the Parish Drive bridge over the tracks. The station was 20.8 miles (33.5 km) away from its terminus at Hoboken Terminal on the shores of the Hudson River, where connections would be made to New York City via ferry and the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. The western terminus. Denville, was 12.8 miles (20.6 km) away, where connections with the Morris and Essex Railroad were available. Just west of the station was Mountain View junction, where a connection was made to the Erie Railroad's New York and Greenwood Lake Railway was made.

  1. ^ Shaw 1884, p. 198.
  2. ^ Taber & Taber 1981, p. 753.

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