Newark Pennsylvania Station

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Newark Penn Station

The Pennsylvania Station in Newark (also known as Newark Penn Station , IATA station code ZBP ), in the State of New Jersey located, is adjacent to Newark Airport Station and Newark Broad Street Station one of the main stations of the city.

On March 23, 1935, the train station designed by the architects McKim, Mead, and White , which had a smaller predecessor, was opened to traffic. Stylistically, it represents a mixture of Art Deco and Neoclassicism .

The station was planned as one of the hubs of the former US railway company Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). From here, passengers can get to Penn Station in New York City . Since 1937, the transition to the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M; now PATH ) has been possible, which goes to Lower Manhattan. The former transfer station to H&M, Manhattan Transfer , lost its function.

Today Newark Penn Station u. a. Served by the US railroad company Amtrak and is a stopover on the so-called North-East Corridor . The largest number of passengers, however, comes from commuters. Three regional suburban railway lines of the regional transport company NJ Transit meet here (Raritan Valley Line, Northeast Corridor Line and North Jersey Coast Line). Besides the possibility to change the PATH system is the switch to light rail Newark, the Newark Light Rail , possible.

Individual evidence

  1. "About Newark: Rails and Roads" ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the municipal website "goNewark.com" @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gonewark.com

Web links

Commons : Newark Pennsylvania Station  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 5 ″  N , 74 ° 9 ′ 51 ″  W.