Hopewell Station, is located in Hopewell

Hopewell, New Jersey

Hopewell is a Borough in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the borough population was 1,922.Hopewell was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 14, 1891, from portions of Hopewell Township, based on the results of a...

, New Jersey

New Jersey

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. The station was built in 1876 by the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad

National Railway

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 and added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 on June 22, 1984. New Jersey Transit

New Jersey Transit

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 has proposed reopening the station to railroad service as part of the West Trenton Line.

History

The Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad built the station in 1876 as part of the planned National Railway route between New York City

New York City

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 and Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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 The station was leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway

Reading Company

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in 1879. Train service to the station was terminated in 1983.