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Orange is a New Jersey Transit station in Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morris & Essex Lines (formerly Erie Lackawanna Railway). Eastbound service is available via the Kearny Connection to Secaucus Junction and Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan and there is also service to Hoboken Terminal.

Orange
Dover-bound train approaches, in April 2015
General information
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 21, 41, 71, 73, 79, and 92 Community Coach: 77 ONE Bus: 24, 44
Construction
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	4[1]
History
Opened	November 19, 1836[2]
Electrified	September 22, 1930[3]
Passengers
2017	1,401 (average weekday)[4][5]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Highland Avenue toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch weekdays Brick Church toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken Highland Avenue toward Hackettstown Morristown Line
Former services Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Highland Avenue toward Buffalo Main Line Brick Church toward Hoboken
Orange Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The station depot at Orange.
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Location	73 Lincoln Avenue, Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°46′18″N 74°14′2″W
Area	4.5 acres (1.8 ha)
Built	1918
Architect	Nies, F. J.
Architectural style	Renaissance
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002665[6]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

History

The brick station and nearby freight terminal were built in 1918. The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[7][8]

Station layout

Both platforms have walkways over their respective track allowing passengers to access Track 1, though trains on Track 1 do not typically stop at this station.

Ground/ platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Track 3	←      Morristown Line toward Dover or Hackettstown (Highland Avenue) ←      Gladstone Branch weekdays toward Gladstone (Highland Avenue)
	Track 1	←           Morristown Line, Gladstone Branch do not stop here →
	Track 2	←           Morristown Line, Gladstone Branch toward Hoboken or New York (Brick Church) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	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 2, 2020.

References

External links

Media related to Orange (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

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