Arlington is an abandoned train station in the Arlington section of Kearny, New Jersey. The station was used by the Erie Railroad along its New York & Greenwood Lake Railroad division. After the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad merged in 1960, it was used as a stop on the Greenwood Lake-Boonton Line, which runs from Hoboken Terminal to Hackettstown. Train service was discontinued on September 20, 2002 when the Montclair Connection was opened.[4]

Arlington
The site of the former Arlington station as viewed near Garafola Place.
General information
Location	Forest Street railroad crossing, Kearny, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.7698, -74.1401
Owned by	Norfolk Southern
Line(s)	Boonton Line
Platforms	ground-level
Tracks	2
Construction
Platform levels	1
Other information
Station code	1701 (Erie Railroad)[1]
History
Opened	1899; 123 years ago (1899)[2]
Closed	September 20, 2002; 20 years ago (2002-09-20)
Electrified	N/A
Previous names	Conrail, New Jersey Transit
Passengers
2002	137[3]
Former services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Rowe Street toward Hackettstown Boonton Line Hoboken Terminus North Newark toward Hackettstown Boonton Line until April 26, 1986 Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station West Arlington toward Sterling Forest New York and Greenwood Lake Railway Jersey City Terminus

Accident

On September 8, 1965, three Kearny High School students were struck and killed by a two car Erie Lackawanna train.[5] The trio, on their way to the first day of the fall term, crossed the tracks at the Elm Street crossing next to the station despite the gate being down. Thinking the warning lights were for a departing east bound train (towards Hoboken), the three students went around the barrier. A boxcar parked in a siding next to the station blocked the victims from seeing the oncoming west bound express train.[6]

All three (Robert Floyd, 16, Rodney Murdock, 16, and Richard Collins, 15) were killed instantly. Both the train's fireman and conductor were later arraigned on charges of manslaughter. Following the accident, the town of Kearny began to have physical guards at the crossing during school hours.[7]

See also

• Benson Street – First of two additional stations that were removed with the Montclair Connection.
• Rowe Street – Second of two additional stations that were removed with the Montclair Connection.
• West Arlington station – Second of two stations in Arlington for the Erie Lackawanna Railway.

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