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Radburn
The 1929 station depot at Radburn is on the left in May 2014.
General information
Location	Pollitt Drive at Fair Lawn Avenue (CR 76), Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°56′23″N 74°07′18″W / 40.9396°N 74.1217°W / 40.9396; -74.1217
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 145 and 171
Other information
Fare zone	6
History
Opened	October 1, 1881
Rebuilt	April–October 1929
Passengers
2018	1,592 (average weekday)
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Glen Rock–Boro Halltoward Suffern Bergen County Line Broadwaytoward Hoboken
Former services Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Glen Rock-Bergen Linetoward Ridgewood Bergen County Railroad Fair Lawntoward Jersey City
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	40°56′22″N 74°7′19″W / 40.93944°N 74.12194°W / 40.93944; -74.12194
Area	0.3 acres (0.1 ha)
Built	1929
Architect	Clarence S. Stein
Architectural style	Dutch Colonial Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP reference No.	84002580
NJRHP No.	483
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Designated NJRHP	March 17, 1984
Location

Radburn is a New Jersey Transit train station in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, served by the Bergen County Line. It is 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 1929 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.

History

The location of the Radburn development was considered beneficial because of its location on the Erie Railroad with connections to Jersey City, 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 1929. 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 supervisor, 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

The station has two tracks, each with a low-level side platform. It is staffed with a station agent on weekday mornings.

See also

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

Bibliography

• Clayton, W. Woodford (1882). History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Everts & Peck. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
• Poor, Henry Varnum (1884). Poor's Manual of Railroads. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: H.V. & H.W. Poor. Retrieved July 28, 2020.

References

1. "Main and Bergen County Line Timetables" (PDF). Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. November 7, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 24, 2002. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
2. Poor 1884, p. 167.
3. Clayton 1882, p. 203.
4. "Plan New Railroad Station Serve the Town of Radburn". The Paterson Morning Call. April 15, 1929. p. 2. Retrieved July 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Radburn Railroad Station". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. October 14, 1929. p. 26. Retrieved July 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
6. Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "Here Are New Jersey Transit's Most, Least-Used Train Stations". patch.com. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
7. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
8. ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
9. Radburn New Jersey Transit Railroad Station Survey
10. Bergen County Listings on the National Register of Historic Places (Building #84002580)
11. ^ Edith B. Wallace; Paula S. Reed (June 2004). "National Historic Landmark Nomination: Radburn" (PDF). National Park Service. pp. 11, 41. Retrieved May 11, 2016.

External links

• Station from Fair Lawn Avenue from Google Maps Street View

• Fair Lawn, New Jersey
• Railway stations in Bergen County, New Jersey
• NJ Transit Rail Operations stations
• Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
• Former Erie Railroad stations
• Dutch Colonial Revival architecture in the United States
• National Register of Historic Places in Bergen County, New Jersey
• New Jersey Register of Historic Places
• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1881
• 1881 establishments in New Jersey