Branch Brook Park (NCS station)
Encyclopedia
Branch Brook Park Station is a station located at Anthony Place (formerly North 5 Street) north of Heller Parkway on the Newark City Subway branch of the Newark Light Rail
. This station was opened in 2001 to replace a previous streetcar loop at this stop, then called Franklin Avenue Station to allow for longer vehicles to be used that replaced the PCC streetcar
s that previously ran the line, and also replaced the now-shuttered Heller Parkway Station just one block south. Franklin Avenue Station was originally built in 1940.
Prior to the opening of the line to Grove Street in Bloomfield, this stop was the final stop on the Newark City Subway. Some rush hour service still terminates here on a tail track north of the station. An 80 space park and ride lot is located one block from the station.
Newark Light Rail
The Newark Light Rail is a light rail system under New Jersey Transit Bus Operations serving Newark, New Jersey. The service consists of two segments, the original Newark City Subway, and the extension to Broad Street station...
. This station was opened in 2001 to replace a previous streetcar loop at this stop, then called Franklin Avenue Station to allow for longer vehicles to be used that replaced the PCC streetcar
PCC streetcar
The PCC streetcar design was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful in its native country, and after World War II was licensed for use elsewhere in the world...
s that previously ran the line, and also replaced the now-shuttered Heller Parkway Station just one block south. Franklin Avenue Station was originally built in 1940.
Prior to the opening of the line to Grove Street in Bloomfield, this stop was the final stop on the Newark City Subway. Some rush hour service still terminates here on a tail track north of the station. An 80 space park and ride lot is located one block from the station.
Transfers
- New Jersey Transit buses:
- At the station: 74, 90, 92, and 93
- On Heller Parkway: 27