Rahway (NJT station)

Rahway (NJT station)

Infobox Station
name=Rahway
style=NJT Rail



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image_caption=A freight train passes Rahway station
address=Milton Avenue, between Irving & Broad Streets
Rahway, New Jersey
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other=NJT Bus: 62
platform=1 side platform, 1 island platform
levels=
tracks=6
parking=Yes
bicycle=Yes
baggage_check=
passengers=738,400
pass_year=2005
pass_percent=0
pass_system=
opened=
closed=
rebuilt=
electrified=
ADA=yes
code=
owned=New Jersey Transit
zone=8
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services=s-rail|title=NJT
mpassengers=

Rahway is a New Jersey Transit train station located in Rahway, New Jersey, providing service on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines. It is located in the downtown part of the city on an embankment completed in 1913 and trestles over Milton Avenue and Irving and Cherry Streets. The present station was built by New Jersey Transit at a cost of $16 million and opened in early 1999. It replaced a passenger station constructed by the Penn Central and the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1974. The City of Rahway completed a $600,000 public plaza in front of the station in 2001.

This is the last station jointly serving both the Northeast Corridor and the North Jersey Coast lines and is located just northeast of the Perth Amboy Junction, where the lines split. Because of this, the station is configured with an island transfer-platform for the Trenton and Long Branch-bound side of the station. The New York-bound platform is a side platform more typical of the Northeast Corridor.

Amtrak served this station until the opening of the Metropark station.

Rahway is the home to the global research and development headquarters of Merck Research Laboratories; many employees commute to work using this station. There had formerly been a North Rahway station located adjacent to the Merck facility, but the station was closed and demolished in 1993.


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