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{{Short description|NJ Transit rail station}}
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{{Infobox station
 | name                       = Summit 
 | style                      = NJ Transit
 | image                      = SummitMay2025NJT.jpg
 | address                    = 40 Union Place, [[Summit, New Jersey]], U.S.
 | coordinates                = {{Coord|40|42|59.6|N|74|21|27.9|W|display=inline,title|type:railwaystation}}
 | line                       =   [[Morristown Line]] and [[Gladstone Branch]]
 | other                      = {{bus icon|12px|NJT Bus}} '''[[New Jersey Transit Bus Operations|NJT Bus]]''': [[List of New Jersey Transit bus routes (1-99)|70]], [[Wheels (New Jersey Transit)|986]]<br/>{{bus icon|12px|Intercity Bus}} '''[[Lakeland Bus Lines|Lakeland]]''': 78
 | platform                   = 2 (1 [[island platform]], 1 [[side platform]])
 | levels                     = 
 | tracks                     = 3
 | parking                    = 
 | bicycle                    = 
| passengers = 2,399 (average weekday)<ref name="ridership">{{cite report|url=https://archive.org/details/njt-boarding-data-q-1-2025-1|title=Average Weekday Rail Station Passenger Boardings History, FY 2019&ndash;2025|publisher=[[NJ Transit]]|date=2025|accessdate=June 1, 2025|via=[[Internet Archive]]|location=[[Newark, New Jersey]]}}</ref>
| pass_year = 2024
 | pass_percent               = 
 | pass_system                = 
 | opened                     = September&nbsp;17, 1837 (preliminary trip)<ref name="madison1837">{{cite news |title=Morris and Essex is Seventy-Nine Years Old |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42815704/madison_station_june_16_1916/ |access-date=April 3, 2020|work=The Madison Eagle |date=June 16, 1916 |page=10|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref><br>September&nbsp;28, 1837 (regular service){{sfn|Walker|1902|p=409}}{{sfn|Douglass|1912|p=339}}
 | closed                     = 
 | rebuilt                    = 1905
 | electrified                = December&nbsp;18, 1930<ref>{{cite news |title=Lackawanna Electric Train Gets Ovations |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69036394/electric-morristown-december-19-1930/ |access-date=January 31, 2021 |work=The Paterson Morning Call |date=December 19, 1930 |page=34|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref>
 | accessible                 = yes
 | code                       = 
 | owned                      = New Jersey Transit
 | zone                       = 9<ref name="timetables">{{cite web|url=http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0040.pdf|title=Morris and Essex Timetables|publisher=[[New Jersey Transit Rail Operations]]|access-date=November 27, 2010|date=November 7, 2010|location=Newark, New Jersey|archive-date=September 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904234953/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0040.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 | former                     = 
 | services                   = {{Adjacent stations|system1=NJ Transit
|line1=Gladstone|left1=New Providence|right1=Short Hills|note-right1=weekdays
|line2=Morristown|left2=Chatham|right2=Short Hills
}}
 | other_services_header      = Former services
 | other_services_collapsible = yes
 | other_services             = {{Adjacent stations|system1=Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
|line1=main|left1=Chatham|right1=Short Hills
|line2=Gladstone Branch|left2=New Providence|right2=Roseville Avenue
}}
 | mpassengers                = 
 | mapframe                   = yes
 | mapframe-custom            = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#000 |zoom=14 }}
}}

'''Summit''' is a [[train station]] in [[Summit, New Jersey]], served by [[New Jersey Transit]]'s [[Morris & Essex Lines]] (the [[Gladstone Branch]] and [[Morristown Line]]). The station sits between Union Place on the north and Broad Street on the south, with station access via either side, and between Summit Avenue on the east and Maple Avenue on the west. Constructed in 1904–1905 by the [[Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad]] in a mile-long open cut, it is one of the few NJ Transit stations with platforms below street level.

==History==
The station had served several [[Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad]], and then [[Erie-Lackwanna Railroad]], named passenger trains. These included the ''[[Lake Cities (Erie Railroad train)|Lake Cities]],'' ''Owl''/''New York Mail,'' ''Twilight''/''Pocono Express'' and the DLW flagship train, the ''[[Phoebe Snow (train)|Phoebe Snow]].''<ref>1954 Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad timetable http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/timetables/DLW042554.pdf</ref><ref>1961 Erie-Lackawanna timetable https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/ERIE_TABLE1_19610625.png</ref>

The station was cosmetically renovated for the 2005 [[PGA Championship]] at the [[Baltusrol Golf Club]] in nearby [[Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey|Springfield]]. Status screens were installed on the platforms to show train arrivals and platforms, which are still present, and fittings were painted. During that time, buses were used as the connection to go to and from the PGA Championship.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bloom|first=Molly|date=August 12, 2015|title=Mass transit keeping most PGA fans on track|work=Newark Star-Ledger|via=Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen|url=https://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/pf_headline.asp?id=14288|access-date=2021-01-31|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205082602/https://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/pf_headline.asp?id=14288|archive-date=2021-02-05}}</ref>
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On December 20, 2018, [[Governor of New Jersey|New Jersey Governor]] [[Phil Murphy]] chose the station as the venue to sign legislation to reform the management of NJ Transit.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Baldwin|first=Carly|url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/summit/murphy-signs-historic-nj-transit-reforms-vows-it-will-improve|title=Murphy Signs Historic NJ Transit Reforms, Vows It Will Improve|date=December 20, 2018|website=Summit, NJ Patch|language=en|access-date=July 17, 2019}}</ref>

==Station layout and services==
There are two platforms and three tracks: Track 1 is served by a side platform, while an island platform serves Track 2 and the Wall Track. Track 1 is accessible via the station overpass or directly from the Union Place parking lot, while the island platform can only be accessed via the overpass.

In the early morning hours, trains on the Gladstone Branch originate at [[Gladstone station (NJ Transit)|Gladstone Station]] with a final destination to [[Hoboken Terminal]]. Trains going to [[New York Pennsylvania Station]] (New York Penn Station) originate in [[Dover station (NJ Transit)|Dover]].

On weekends, the Gladstone Branch trains only operate between Summit and Gladstone, requiring passengers wishing to travel farther east to transfer across the platform to a Morristown Line train, which operates between Dover and New York (as well as Hoboken via a transfer at [[Newark Broad Street station]]).

The station has a small [[parking lot]] on its property that slopes down from Union Place. Another large lot is across Summit Avenue, accessible from Broad Street. In the 1990s, a multistory [[parking garage]] was built on part of the Broad Street lot. Following the [[September 11 attacks]], the city made daily chalk marks on the tires of the many unclaimed vehicles to help identify those missing.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}

The station also has a waiting room with a small coffee and newspaper shop open during the morning rush hour and then through the evening rush hour.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:EL MU train waiting to depart Summit, NJ on June 21, 1968 (24070419546).jpg|Summit station in 1968
Image:Summit NJT station.jpg|Station building on Union Place in downtown Summit
Image:New_Jersey_Transit_6662-1.JPG|Midtown Direct train in Summit
Image:SummitNJ9-11memorial.jpg|Summit's 9/11 memorial outside the station
Image:SummitNJStationInterior.jpg|Interior of the station, with the cafe in the back
</gallery>

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |first=A.M.|last=Douglass|title=The Railroad Trainman, Volume 29 |date=1912 |publisher=Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen |location=[[Cleveland, Ohio]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AszNAAAAMAAJ |access-date=April 3, 2020}}
*{{cite journal|last1=Walker|first1=Herbert T.|title=Early History of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and Its Locomotives - Part 2: The Morris and Essex Railroad|journal=Railroad Gazette|date=1902|volume=34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JYjAQAAMAAJ&q=South+Orange+railroad+station+1837|access-date=April 3, 2020}}

== References ==
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==External links==
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