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Brick Church is a New Jersey Transit station in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morris and Essex Line. Service is available from this station east to Hoboken Terminal, New York Penn Station and west to Dover and Hackettstown.

Brick Church
Looking east toward downtown East Orange
General information
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, 94, and 97 Community Coach: 77 ONE Bus: 24
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	November 19, 1836[1]
Rebuilt	December 1880[2] April 21, 1921–December 18, 1922[3]
Electrified	September 22, 1930[4]
Passengers
2017	2,041 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Orange toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch weekdays East Orange toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Orange toward Hackettstown Morristown Line
Former services Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Orange toward Buffalo Main Line East Orange toward Hoboken
Brick Church Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Brick Church Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°45′56″N 74°13′10″W
Area	2 acres (0.8 ha)
Built	1921
Architect	Nies, F.J.
Architectural style	Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002636[7]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

There are two transit lines that serve this station—the Morris & Essex Gladstone and Morris & Essex Morristown. Each weekday, 103 trains pass through the station, including 19 trains during peak hours. During FY2012, the average weekday boardings were about 1,610. This stop was ranked #24 out of 148 commuter rail stations. At this location there are available commuter parking and bike racks for passenger use.[8]

The brick church itself, originally the Second Presbyterian Church of Orange, can be seen north of the station. The church building dates from 1878. The Brick Church station was probably established not long after judging by the architectural style of the original station building.^{[citation needed]} The present station building was opened in December 1922 when the track grade was raised above street level.[9]

Brick Church was the station stop for "the Oranges" made by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's through trains to Buffalo and the west. Its priority continues to this day under NJ Transit, Brick Church having more train service than either Orange or East Orange.

The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984,[10] listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[11]

History

The line that currently runs through East Orange began in 1835 with the charter of the Morris and Essex Railroad, being approved by the New Jersey State Legislature on January 29.[12] Service through the city of East Orange began on November 19, 1836 from Newark to The Oranges. With the construction of the railroad, Matthias Ogden Halstead (1792–1866), a local property developer took advantage of the one train a day that went to Newark. The railroad dropped Halstead off at his house and picked him up at his house rather making a trip to a station. Halstead offered at no cost to build a proper station at the site of the Brick Church station, and did so for the railroad.[13]

Station layout

The station has two low-level platforms serving all three tracks.

P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Track 3	←      Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Orange) ←      Gladstone Branch weekdays toward Gladstone (Orange)
	Track 1	←      Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Orange) ←      Gladstone Branch weekdays toward Gladstone (Orange) ←           Morristown Line, Gladstone Branch toward Hoboken or New York (East Orange) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Track 2	←           Morristown Line, Gladstone Branch toward Hoboken or New York (East Orange) →
G	Street level	Station building, ticket machines, parking

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey

Bibliography

• Douglass, A.M. (1912). The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29. Cleveland, Ohio: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
• New Jersey State Board of Assessors (1888). Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, Volumes 4-5. Camden, New Jersey: S. Chew, Printer. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
• Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.
• Whittemore, Henry (1896). The Founders and Builders of the Oranges. Newark, New Jersey: L.J. Hardham. Retrieved April 3, 2020.

References

External links

Media related to Brick Church (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Harrison Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

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