Blairstown (DL&W station)

Blairstown

The station house, which is now privately owned
Location Hope Road (CR 521)
Blairstown Township, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°58′06″N 74°57′14″W / 40.968200°N 74.953783°W / 40.968200; -74.953783Coordinates: 40°58′06″N 74°57′14″W / 40.968200°N 74.953783°W / 40.968200; -74.953783
Line(s)
  Montclair-Boonton Line [1]
  Morristown Line [1]
Construction
Parking 243 spaces (proposed)[2]
History
Opened 1911[3]
Closed 1970
Rebuilt proposed
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station
Delaware Water Gap[2]
toward Scranton		   Lackawanna
Cut-Off
(proposed)		   Andover[2]
toward New York Penn Station
Preceding station   Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad   Following station
toward Buffalo
Main Line
toward Hoboken

Blairstown was one of the three original stations on the Lackawanna Cut-Off rail line in northwestern New Jersey. Built by contractor Hyde, McFarlan & Burke, the station opened in 1911. Most passenger trains, such as the Lackawanna Limited and, later, the Phoebe Snow stopped at Blairstown, which also sold commuter tickets. It was the only station on the Cut-Off to remain open until passenger service ended in January 1970. After 1970, the building housed a radio station, WHCY-FM, until the 1990s. The station building is currently privately owned.

Blairstown is slated to become a station stop once again if a proposal by New Jersey Transit to restore rail service to Scranton, Pennsylvania, comes to fruition.

References

  1. 1 2 "New Jersey – Pennsylvania Lackawanna Cut-Off Passenger Rail Service Restoration Project Environmental Assessment" (PDF). U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, and New Jersey Transit in cooperation with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. June 2008. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Northwest New Jersey - Northeast Pennsylvania Rail Corridor Lackawanna Cutoff" (pdf). New Jersey Transit. November 2005. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  3. ↑ Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1981). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. 2. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. p. 727. ISBN 0-9603398-3-3.
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