User:Mitchazenia/River Street (Erie Railroad station)

RIVER ST
The River Street station in 1909 before the tracks were elevated off the ground level through Paterson.
General information
Location	Leon and River Streets, Paterson, New Jersey
Owned by	Erie Railroad (–1960) Erie-Lackawanna Railway (1960–1976) Conrail (1976–1977)
Line(s)	Main Line
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Platform levels	1
Other information
Station code	2305
History
Closed	circa 1977
Rebuilt	1927
Services
Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Hawthorne toward Chicago Main Line Paterson toward Jersey City

River Street station (signed on the depots as River St) was one of three train stations on the Erie Railroad main line serving the city of Paterson, New Jersey. The station, located in the Bunker Hill and Riverside sections of Paterson, was located at the intersection of Leon and River Streets. The original station at River Street opened in the 19th Century as a Type-4 design (according to a 1920 report by the Erie to the Interstate Commerce Commission) with a long wooden siding, one side platform and roof at ground level. The station was replaced in 1927 when the Main Line tracks were elevated through Paterson. The new station was a one-story concrete depot elevated over Leon Street.

The new depot served the railroad through the remaining years of the Erie and soon into the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad (after the Erie and competitor Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad merged in October 1960). River Street was closed circa 1977 by the Consolidated Rail Corporation (CONRAIL) which absorbed the Erie-Lackawanna on April 1, 1976. Currently the tracks are used by New Jersey Transit Rail Operations for their Main Line, the alignment made after the Passaic Plan in 1963 used part of the Lackawanna's Boonton Branch and Erie's Newark Branch as part of the Main Line.

History

The remains of River Street station in 2010. The station stairs remained, fenced up, and the former canopy overhangs are visible sticking out of the stairs