Summit (NJT station)
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Platforms at Summit Station |
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Station building on Union Place in downtown Summit |
Summit is a station served by
New Jersey Transit's
Gladstone Branch and
Morristown Line, located in downtown
Summit,
New Jersey. It serves as a transfer station for those coming from Gladstone and wishing to go to New York, since most trains from Gladstone only go to
Hoboken Terminal. It also serves as the originating point for numerous trains to both Hoboken and
Penn Station in
Midtown Manhattan.
There are three tracks and two platforms in the station. Trains on the Gladstone Branch, in both directions, typically use Track 3, a siding on the south side of the station, while faster Morristown Line trains come in peak direction on the other side of the
island platform and non-peak on Track 1. Track 1 is not used on weekends and holidays, however, so that passengers transferring can remain on the platform instead of having to cross the overpass, which they may not have time to do.
The station is notable for being one of the few on NJ Transit located below street level. It also is the westernmost one on either line that leaves it to have an elevated
platform.
Due to the availability of trains and potential destinations, it draws
commuters from not just Summit but many surrounding communities. The station thus boasts not only a small adjacent
parking lot on its own property that slopes down from Union Place but a large lot just across Summit Avenue, accessible from Broad Street. In the 1990s, a multistory
parking garage was built on part of the Broad Street lot. In the days after the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the city made chalk marks on the
tires of the many unclaimed vehicles in it for every day they remained there, in order to help identify those missing.
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Gladstone Branch (West from Summit Station)*
Gladstone Branch/Morristown Line (East from Summit Station)
