Wood-Ridge station

Wood-Ridge
The Wood-Ridge station in September 2011, from the bridge above the station.
Location	Park Place East (under NJ 17 / Bergen County Route 36 interchange) Wood-Ridge, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°50′37″N 74°04′44″W / 40.8437°N 74.0789°WCoordinates: 40°50′37″N 74°04′44″W / 40.8437°N 74.0789°W
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Pascack Valley Line
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Other information
Station code	763 (Erie Railroad)[1]
Fare zone	3[2]
History
Rebuilt	1967[3]
Previous names	Wood-Ridge-Moonachie[4]
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	302 (average weekday)[5]
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Teterboro toward Spring Valley Pascack Valley Line Secaucus Junction toward Hoboken Preceding station   Erie Railroad   Following station Carlstadt toward Pavonia Terminal New Jersey and New York Railroad Hasbrouck Heights toward Haverstraw

Wood-Ridge (formerly known as Wood-Ridge-Moonachie^[4]) is a New Jersey Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line. The station is in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey and is located at Park Place East, near the intersection of Route 17. The station originates back to the 1860s as part of the Hackensack and New York Railroad. The station at Wood-Ridge was soon replaced by a larger building on the opposite side of the tracks until 1967, when a widening of Route 17 caused the need to demolish the station depot. Along with Wood-Ridge, Carlstadt, Hasbrouck Heights and Williams Avenue stations were all demolished.^[3] The Pascack Valley line services this station seven days a week.

Until 2016, the Wood-Ridge station was the only one to serve the town. This changed when the Wesmont station serving the Bergen County Line opened near Wood-Ridge's border with Wallington.

Station layout

1	■ Pascack Valley Line	toward Spring Valley (Teterboro)
	■ Pascack Valley Line	toward Hoboken (Secaucus Junction)

The station has one track and one low-level side platform.

References

1. "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
2. "Pascack Valley Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
3. Jones, Wilson E. (1996). The Pascack Valley Line - A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad. East Hanover, New Jersey: Railroadians of America. ISBN 0-941652-14-9.
4. Yanosey, Robert J. (2006). Erie Railroad Facilities (In Color). 1. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 100–101. ISBN 1-58248-183-0.
5. "QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS". New Jersey Transit. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.

External links

• Station from Moonachie Avenue from Google Maps Street View