Pompton Junction station

Pompton Junction
Pompton Junction station site from the Susquehanna side, c. 1907-1912.
General information
Location	Montclair Avenue, Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, US 07442
Coordinates	41°00′13″N 74°18′00″W / 41.00361°N 74.30000°W / 41.00361; -74.30000
Line(s)	New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Construction
Platform levels	1
Other information
Station code	1145 (New York, Susquehanna and Western) 1785 (New York and Greenwood Lake)[1]
History
Opened	January 1, 1873; 151 years ago (January 1, 1873)[2][3]
Former services
Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Haskell toward Sterling Forest New York and Greenwood Lake Railway Pompton–Riverdale toward Jersey City Preceding station New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Following station Bloomingdale toward Stroudsburg Main Line Pompton Lakes toward Susquehanna Transfer or Jersey City

Pompton Junction is a former railroad station and active railroad junction in the borough of Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, United States. The station is located on the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway and the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, both subsidiaries of the Erie Railroad. Pompton Junction contained two side platforms at a diamond crossing, with a station depot on the Susquehanna Railroad side and a station canopy on the Greenwood Lake side. A railroad tower with the telegraph call letters "PJ" was present on the Greenwood Lake side of the station.^[4]

The station opened with the construction of the Montclair Railway, a subsidiary of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad, on January 1, 1873. The Erie Railroad closed the station in November 1921 for a few months, before reopening again in January 1922. On the New York and Greenwood Lake side, the Erie closed the station for good in September 1930 and the Susquehanna Railroad station burned down on May 8, 1941.