Brick Church (NJT station)

Brick Church
Line(s)	Gladstone Branch   Morristown Line
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	NJT Bus: 21, 71, 73, 79, 94, and 97 Community Coach: 77 ONE Bus: 24
Other information
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	19 November 1836
Rebuilt	1923
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	1,610 (average weekday)[1]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Orange toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch East Orange toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station Orange toward Hackettstown Morristown Line Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Orange toward Buffalo Main Line East Orange toward Hoboken
Brick Church Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Brick Church Plaza, East Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°45′56″N 74°13′10″W / 40.76556°N 74.21944°WCoordinates: 40°45′56″N 74°13′10″W / 40.76556°N 74.21944°W
Area	2 acres (0.8 ha)
Built	1921
Architect	Nies, F.J.
Architectural style	Tudor Revival, Jacobethan Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002636[2]
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984

Brick Church is a New Jersey Transit station in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, along the Morris and Essex Line. Service is available from this station east to Hoboken Terminal, New York Penn Station and west to Dover and Hackettstown.

There are two transit lines that service this station which are the Morris & Essex Gladstone and Morris & Essex Morristown. There are 103 trains that come to the station which includes 19 trains during peak hours. During the FY2012, the average weekday board were about 1,610. This stop was ranked #24 out of 148 commuter rail stations. At this location there are available commuter parking and bike racks for passenger use.^[3]

The brick church itself, originally the Second Presbyterian Church of Orange, can be seen north of the station. The church building dates from 1878, and Brick Church station was probably established not long after judging by the architectural style of the original station building. The present station building was opened in 1923 when the track grade was raised above street level.^[4]

Brick Church was the station stop for "the Oranges" made by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's through trains to Buffalo and the west. Its priority continues to this day under New Jersey Transit, Brick Church having more train service than either Orange or East Orange.

The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984,^[5] listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.^[6]

Looking east toward downtown East Orange

The eponymous church

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey

Notes

1. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS" (PDF). New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
2. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
3. http://www.njfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Targeting-Transit-sample-station-area-profile.pdf
4. Taber & Taber 1980, p. 8
5. Monmouth County Listings, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed September 2, 2007.
6. Brick Church New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey

References

• Taber, Thomas Townsend; Taber, Thomas Townsend III (1980). The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Twentieth Century. 1. Muncy, PA: Privately printed. ISBN 0-9603398-2-5.

External links

• NJT rail station information page for Brick Church
• DepartureVision real time train information for Brick Church
• Morris and Essex Line schedule (Morristown Line & Gladstone Branch)

Media related to Brick Church (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Station House from Google Maps Street View
• Harrison Street entrance from Google Maps Street View