Radburn (NJT station)

Radburn
The 1930 station depot at Radburn is on the left in May 2014.
Coordinates
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 145 and 171
Other information
Fare zone	6
History
Opened	1930
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	1,436 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Glen Rock (Boro Hall) toward Suffern Bergen County Line Broadway toward Hoboken Preceding station   Erie Railroad   Following station Fair Lawn toward Pavonia Terminal Bergen County Railroad Glen Rock-Bergen Line toward Ridgewood
Radburn-Fair Lawn Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
The depot at Radburn in May 2014.
Location	Pollitt Drive, Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Coordinates
Area
Built	1930
Architect	Clarence S. Stein
Architectural style	Dutch Colonial Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002580
NJRHP #	483
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Designated NJRHP	March 17, 1984

Radburn is a New Jersey Transit train station in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, served by the Bergen County Line. It is located on Fair Lawn Avenue in the Radburn section of Fair Lawn, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of two New Jersey Transit train stations in Fair Lawn, the other being Broadway.

The station was designed and built in 1930 by Clarence Stein as part of the Radburn development. It has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource. It is staffed with a station agent weekday mornings.

History

The location of the Radburn development was considered beneficial because of its location on the Erie Railroad with connections to Hoboken, Newark and Manhattan. The designers of the development saw the benefit of a suburban railroad station for planning throughout the New York Metropolitan Area. In July 1928, they proposed the Fairlawn Station Square with a depot that cost $60,000 (1928 USD) and would serve those who would be in the neighborhood after construction of the first 200 homers. The new depot would serve Suffern to the north and Hoboken to the southeast along with connections in the area.

A new railroad depot was constructed on the Bergen County Railroad in 1930. The depot replaced a wooden freight depot that served the area. This new station was designed by Clarence Stein in a Dutch Colonial Revival to keep the idea of modern and efficient and in a similar style of the Radburn neighborhood. The new Radburn station had three sections: a central area that contained the 640-foot (200 m) waiting room and ticket office. This new pavilion contained a sloping and overhanging roof. This south wing of the depot contained the restrooms, and the north wing contained the office of the track superviosr, the baggage room and a porch for customers. The depot had a sandstone design with 14-foot (4.3 m) vaulted ceilings with a slate roof and clapboarding siding.

Station layout

	■ Bergen County Line	toward Suffern (Glen Rock–Boro Hall)
	■ Bergen County Line	toward Hoboken (Broadway)

See also

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

External links

• NJT rail station information page for Radburn
• DepartureVision real time train information for Radburn
• Main Line/Bergen County Line/Port Jervis Line schedule
• Station from Fair Lawn Avenue from Google Maps Street View