Little Falls is the second of two stations maintained by NJ Transit in Little Falls, New Jersey. The station, on the Montclair-Boonton Line is the first to receive limited revenue service due to the end of electrification at the site of the former Great Notch station. Little Falls station, located at Union Avenue (Passaic County Route 646) in downtown has one side platform with the 1915 station depot, built of brick on the side. The station contains one track for revenue service, and a passing siding for trains. The station is the eighth fare zone, costing $8 for a one-way ticket to Hoboken Terminal and $1.25 more to transfer at Newark Broad Street to New York Pennsylvania Station. The station has 194 parking spaces, 134 on Railroad Avenue at Montclair Avenue and 60 more along Montclair Avenue. A ticket machine is available. The station is not accessible for handicapped persons. Anyone wishing to receive train service for handicapped must go to Montclair State University station or Wayne Route 23 Transit Center across the Passaic River in Wayne.

Little Falls
Little Falls station building in September 2014 facing eastbound towards Great Notch.
General information
Location	Union Avenue, Little Falls, NJ 07424
Owned by	NJ Transit
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1 revenue track and 1 siding
Connections	NJT Bus: 11, 191, 704, and 705 (on Main Street)
Construction
Parking	194 parking spaces
Bicycle facilities	Lockers available
Other information
Station code	1765 (Erie Railroad)[1]
Fare zone	8
History
Opened	January 1, 1873[2][3][4]
Rebuilt	1915[5]
Electrified	Not electrified
Passengers
2017	165 (average weekday)[6][7]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Wayne Route 23 toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line limited service Montclair State University toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Mountain View toward Sterling Forest New York and Greenwood Lake Railway Great Notch toward Jersey City Singac (closed) toward Sterling Forest

Station layout and services

Trains on the northbound service this station after Montclair State University Station on Clove Road.[8] As of the November 7, 2010, five inbound (to Hoboken) trains stop at Little Falls on weekday mornings, while ten outbound trains (from Hoboken) stop on weekday afternoons/evenings (The last train requires a transfer at Montclair State University Station.) There is no weekend service to Little Falls, as all service terminates at Bay Street station in Montclair, New Jersey. However, during holidays, three extra trains heading to Lake Hopatcong stop at Little Falls along with three heading to Hoboken Terminal. Bus service is provided by New Jersey Transit with four lines meeting at Little Falls station by the No. 11, No. 191, No. 704 and No. 705.

History

The station is located along the Montclair-Boonton Line, a former alignment of the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway (NYGL), run by the Erie Railroad. The line ran from the Erie's Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City to Sterling Forest station on the New Jersey / New York state line. The station was the second of three built in Little Falls, the others being Great Notch station in the Great Notch district and the Singac station.[9] The current railroad depot, a one-story brick structure, was built by the Erie in 1915.

The Greenwood Lake Line was cut back to Wanaque-Midvale station in 1935 and then cut entirely in 1966, but service on this portion of the line was transferred to the newly created Boonton Line, a mix of the New York and Greenwood Lake and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Boonton Branch. In 1983, seven years after the death of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, (after which service had been provided by Conrail), New Jersey Transit took over railroad operations and maintenance of the building. Formerly one of three stations in Little Falls, it has become the only one in downtown Little Falls, after Great Notch was closed by New Jersey Transit in January 2010.[10]

See also

• Singac, New Jersey

Bibliography

• Baxter, Raymond J.; Adams, Arthur G. (1999). Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand. Fordham, New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9780823219544.
• Catlin, George L. (1873). Homes on the Montclair Railway, for New York Business Men. A Description of the Country Adjacent to the Montclair Railway, Between Jersey City and Greenwood Lake. New York, New York: Montclair Railway Company.
• Whittemore, Henry (1894). History of Montclair Township, State of New Jersey: Including the History of Families who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Prosperity. New York, New York: The Suburban Publishing Company. Retrieved February 6, 2020.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Little Falls (NJT station).

• Station from Montclair Avenue from Google Maps Street View