Perth Amboy is a station on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, located in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, 1½ miles south of Woodbridge and 2½ miles north of South Amboy. The station is located in a cut between Elm Street and Maple Street and between Smith Street and Market Street in downtown Perth Amboy, and has two low side platforms. A ticket office is located at street level. The platforms are below street level in the cut.

Perth Amboy
Perth Amboy station in April 2015.
General information
Location	Elm Street between Smith & Market Streets Perth Amboy, New Jersey 08861
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 48, 116, 813, 815, and 817
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	No
Other information
Fare zone	12[1]
History
Opened	June 28, 1875[2]
Rebuilt	1928[3] April 21, 2022–present[4]
Electrified	12 kV 25 Hz (until 2002) 25 kV AC (2002–present)
Passengers
2012	874 (average weekday)[5]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station South Amboy toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line Woodbridge toward New York Penn Station or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station Terminus Elizabethport and Perth Amboy Branch Barber toward Elizabethport Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Terminus Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Branch Genasco toward Rahway Preceding station New York and Long Branch Railroad Following station South Amboy Junction toward Bay Head Junction Main Line Terminus
Perth Amboy Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Perth Amboy station's eastbound entrance
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Coordinates	40°30′33.35″N 74°16′25.68″W
Built	1928[3]
Architect	A.E. Owen
Architectural style	Renaissance, Italian Renaissance Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002735[6]
NJRHP No.	1899[7]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Designated NJRHP	March 17, 1984

History

The station building was built in 1928 to replace an older structure built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey that was moved to Lewis Street and currently serves as a private residence there.[3] It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.[8]

Station renovations

The station was refurbished in the 1990s. On June 16, 2010, New Jersey Transit (NJT) announced a $1 million (2010 USD) deal with Stantec Consulting Services in Rochelle Park, New Jersey to study the addition of high-level platforms for handicap accessibility, per the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) The platform renovation will also include canopies, elevators to street-level and upgrades to communication systems.[9] New Jersey Transit in its 2015 budget allocated $9.6 million for the final design for a major renovation that would modernize it and make it compliant with the ADA.[10] Ground was broken on the $45 million (2022 USD) project on April 21, 2022 with Governor Phil Murphy in attendance.[4]

Station layout

Perth Amboy has two low-level asphalt side platforms.

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, New Jersey
• Perth Amboy Ferry Slip

Bibliography

• Honeyman, Abraham Van Doren (1923). History of Union County, New Jersey 1664-1923 · Volume 1. New York, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. Retrieved April 4, 2021.

References

External links

• NJT North Jersey Coast Line (World-NYC-Subway.org)
• Perth Amboy New Jersey Transit station (The Subway Nut)
• Smith Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Media related to Perth Amboy (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons