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Newark Penn Station

Railroad level

Has six tracks and several platform faces. Looking West, from left to right, these are as follows:

  • Side Platform
  • Track A - NJT & Amtrak Eastbound arrivals
  • Track 1 - NJT & Amtrak Eastbound arrivals
  • Island Platform . On the PATH side it is known as platform B.
  • PATH Track "B" - World Trade Center departures
  • Island Platform (Shared with track 2. The PATH side of the platform is known as Platform C)
  • Track 2 - Amtrak Eastbound arrivals
  • Track 3 - Amtrak (mostly) Westbound departures
  • Island Platform
  • Track 4 - NJT & Amtrak Westbound departures
  • Track 5 - NJT (Raritan Valley Line) Westbound departures
  • Side Platform

The island platform between Track 1  and Track B is divided up the middle by waiting rooms, wrought iron railing, and PATH turnstiles.  Likewise for the platform between track 2 and PATH. The other platforms have small enclosed waiting areas. Easy connection can be made here to NJT's Newark City Subway, PATH trains to Hoboken, Jersey City, and New York, and Greyhound buses. PATH trains also use an upper level, platform H with a ramp to tracks 3 and 4 and a second ramp to track 5 plus stairways to track 2.This track is normally used for PATH trains arriving at Newark from the World Trade Center, but PATH is 100% reverse signaled so any PATH train could use either track. 

City Subway Level

The Newark Subway operates out of the lower level, the entrance to which is located in the extreme northeast corner of the station. Stairs descend to an intermediate level where there is a old wooden token booth and artwork in bronze of subway riders. This artwork is entitled The Commuters by Gregory Gurevich and was installed in 1994. Passengers exiting the station use an escalator which bypasses this intermediate level directly to the Pennsylvania Station concourse at street level. The exit is located near the bus lanes and sports a sign to "Busses" (sic).

Down one more flight from the mezzanine level, the subway station has five low platforms with a wooden crosswalk between them (kept closed). The two side platforms  and first islands are used for regular passenger service. Lighting is fluorescent and walls are tan tile.  Platform 1 (Side) and two (Island) are for Outbound and platform 5(side) and four island) for inbound. To change trains you ride around the loop. Trains on platform one open doors on both sides to allow for change of trains

The station area formerly served as the main maintenance shops for the 1940s-era PCC vehicles of the City Subway. In-between the side platform area is a maintenance shop and small yard for storage of the trolleys. At the south end of the station are two loops for turning the cars. New Jersey Transit indicated that the outer loop has an 82 foot turning radius and the inner loop has a 62 foot turning radius.

 

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