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Roselle Park Station (Roselle Park, New Jersey) is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on Conrail's Lehigh Line, served by Raritan Valley Line trains direct to Pennsylvania Station New York, Pennsylvania Station Newark, Raritan, and High Bridge. The station is on West Lincoln Avenue between Chestnut Street and Locust Street in the Borough of Roselle Park. The station is just across the street from a bus stop on Routes 94 & 113 at West Lincoln and Chestnut. ==History== The station is located at milepost 16.0 on the Conrail Lehigh Line. This is the former Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline, built in 1832 by LV subsidiary Newark & Roselle Railway. The second station to stand on the property, it was built in 1967 during the Aldene Plan. The project was a joint project between the railroads, NJDOT, and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which elevated trackage above ground level to eliminate grade crossings and rerouted Central Railroad of New Jersey trains (one of NJ Transit's predecessor railroads) to Pennsylvania Station in Newark, New Jersey rather than the CNJ's aging Jersey City terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey. When bankruptcy struck the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the CNJ was forced to fold into the Consolidated Rail Corporation on April 1, 1976. On that date, the New Jersey Department of Transportation took over commuter rail operations. In 1981 the State of New Jersey created New Jersey Transit to oversee all commuter operations, rail and bus, in the state. Since then, NJTransit has continued to operate and improve services on the Raritan Valley Line. In Spring 1997, negotiations began for the joint purchase of Conrail by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway. The Surface Transportation Board officially approved the acquisition and restructuring of Conrail on July 23rd, 1998. The approved restructuring plan transformed Conrail into a private, non-common carrier switching and terminal railroad that operates on behalf of its owners, using rolling stock and locomotives supplied by its owners. Property was divided using a system of railroad heritage, bringing ownership of the route and Roselle Park station to Norfolk Southern Railway. The purchase, often referred to as the "Conrail split" by railroaders, was made final on April 1st, 1999. Currently, the station is served by 53 weekday and 36 weekend New Jersey Transit trains. The station also sees the passing of between 25 and 35 freight trains per day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roselle Park (NJT station)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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