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{{Short description|Train station in Trenton, New Jersey}}
{{redirect|Trenton station||Trenton station (disambiguation)}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{More citations needed|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox station
| name               = Trenton
| style              = NJ Transit
| image              = Trenton Transit Center NEC NJT Overview.jpg
| image_caption      = Trenton Transit Center station in January 2013
| address            = 72-83 South Clinton Avenue
| borough            = [[Trenton, New Jersey]]
| country            = United States
| coordinates        = {{coord|40|13|8|N|74|45|15|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-NJ|display=inline,title}}
| owned              = [[New Jersey Transit]]
| line               = {{Plainlist|
* [[Northeast Corridor]]<!-- the physical "line" is not the same as "services" which are detailed below -->
* [[Bordentown Branch]]
}}
| platform           = 2 [[island platform]]s, 1 [[side platform]] (Northeast Corridor) <br />2 side platforms (River Line)
| tracks             = 8
| connections        = {{Unbulleted list
   | {{bus icon}} [[NJ Transit Bus]]: {{NJ bus link|409|418|600|601|606|608|609|611|619|624}}
   | {{bus icon}} [[SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes|SEPTA Suburban Bus]]: {{SEPTA bus link|127}}
   }}
| parking            = 3,450 spaces
| bicycle            = Available
| accessible         = Yes
| code               = {{Amtrak code|TRE}}
| iata               = ZTN
| zone               = 22 (NJ Transit)<ref name="Northeast Corridor Timetables">{{Cite web |date=November 7, 2010 |title=Northeast Corridor Timetables |url=http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0070.pdf |access-date=November 27, 2010 |publisher=[[New Jersey Transit Rail Operations]] |location=Newark, New Jersey}}</ref><br />NJ (SEPTA)<ref name="Trenton Line Timetable">{{Cite web |date=April 16, 2023 |title=Trenton Line Timetable |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/schedules.septa.org/current/TRE.pdf |access-date=July 11, 2023 |website=[[SEPTA]]}}</ref>
| opened             = April&nbsp;20, 1863<ref name="1863baer">{{cite web |last=Baer |first=Christopher T. |url=http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR1863.pdf |title=A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1863 |publisher=[[Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society]] |date=April 2015 |accessdate=February 21, 2025|page=31}}</ref> 
| rebuilt            = 1893, 1976, 2008
| electrified        = <!--June&nbsp;29, 1930<ref>{{cite news |title=Electric Trains to Run on Phila.-Trenton Line |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69032264/nph-to-tre-electric-june-23-1930/ |access-date=January 31, 2021 |work=[[The Courier-Post|The Evening Courier]] |date=June 23, 1930 |location=[[Camden, New Jersey]] |page=6|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> (North Philadelphia)<br />January&nbsp;16, 1933<ref>{{cite news |title=P.R.R. Opens Electric Service Between N.Y. and Phila. Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69040597/trenton-electric-january-16-1933/ |access-date=January 31, 2021 |work=[[The Courier-Post]] |date=January 16, 1933 |location=[[Camden, New Jersey]] |page=3|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> (New York; partial service)<br />February&nbsp;1, 1933<ref>{{cite news |title=Full Electric Line Wednesday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69039494/nbk-to-tre-electric-january-29-1933/ |access-date=January 31, 2021 |work=[[The Home News Tribune|The Sunday Times]] |date=January 29, 1933 |location=[[New Brunswick, New Jersey]] |pages=1–[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69039543/nbk-to-tre-part-2-january-29-1933/ 2]|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> (New York; regular service)-->
| mpassengers        = {{Rail pass box|passengers=2,533 (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|system=NJT}}
{{Rail pass box|passengers=1,241 daily boardings<ref>{{cite web | title=Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update| publisher=[[SEPTA]] | date=June 2020 | url=https://planning.septa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FY-2021_Service_Plan_Update.docx | page=24 | access-date=March 11, 2022}}</ref>|pass_year=2017|system=SEPTA}}
{{Rail pass box|system=Amtrak|passengers={{Amtrak ridership|Trenton}} annually{{Amtrak ridership|citationNJ}}|pass_year={{Amtrak ridership|date}}}}
| services           = {{Adjacent stations
   |system1=Amtrak
     |line1=Cardinal|left1=Philadelphia|right1=Newark, New Jersey
     |line2=Carolinian|left2=Philadelphia|right2=Newark, New Jersey
     |line3=Pennsylvanian|left3=Philadelphia|right3=Newark, New Jersey
     |line4=Silver Meteor|left4=Philadelphia|right4=Newark, New Jersey
     |line5=Crescent|left5=Philadelphia|right5=Metropark
     |line6=Palmetto|left6=Philadelphia|right6=Metropark
     |line7=Keystone Service|left7=Cornwells Heights|right7=Princeton Junction
     |line8=Northeast Regional|left8=Philadelphia|right8=Princeton Junction
    |line9=Vermonter|left9=Philadelphia|right9=Metropark|note-right9=weekends
    |line10=Acela|nonstop10=yes
  |system11=NJ Transit
    |line11=Northeast Corridor|right11=Hamilton
    |line12=River|left12=Hamilton Avenue
  |system13=SEPTA
    |line13=Trenton|left13=Levittown
  }}
| services_collapsible = yes
| other_services_collapsible = yes
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services     = {{Adjacent stations
  |system1=Amtrak
    |line1=Acela|left1=Philadelphia|right1=Metropark|note-mid1=Until 2023
    |line2=Metroliner|left2=Philadelphia|right2=Newark, New Jersey
    |line3=Metroliner|left3=Philadelphia|right3=Metropark|note-right3=Until 2005
    |line4=Three Rivers|left4=Philadelphia|right4=Newark, New Jersey|note-mid4=1995–2005
    |line5=Broadway Limited|left5=Philadelphia|right5=Newark, New Jersey|note-mid5=Until 1995
    |line6=National Limited|left6=North Philadelphia|right6=Newark, New Jersey|to-right6=New York
    |line7=Montrealer|left7=North Philadelphia|right7=Newark, New Jersey
    |line8=Silver Star|left8=Philadelphia|right8=Newark, New Jersey|note-mid8=1971–2024
  |system9=Pennsylvania Railroad
    |line9=main|left9=Morrisville|right9=Princeton Junction
    |line10=Trenton Line|left10=Morrisville
    |line11=Belvidere Branch|left11=Warren Street
    |line12=Bordentown Branch|left12=Bordentown
  }}
| mapframe           = yes
| mapframe-custom    = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#000 |zoom=12 }}
}}

'''Trenton Transit Center''' is the main passenger [[train station]] in [[Trenton, New Jersey]]. Located along the [[Northeast Corridor]], it is served by [[Amtrak]] intercity trains plus [[NJ Transit Rail Operations|NJ Transit]] and [[SEPTA Regional Rail]] trains. It is the southern terminus of the NJ Transit [[Northeast Corridor Line]] and the northern terminus of the SEPTA [[Trenton Line]]. It is also the northern terminus of the NJ Transit [[River Line (NJ Transit)|River Line]] service and a terminal for NJ Transit and SEPTA buses.

== Station design ==
The primary station building is located on South Clinton Avenue on the west side of the tracks, with a smaller building on the east side. The four-track below-grade Northeast Corridor widens to eight tracks at the station: four platform tracks serving two accessible [[island platform]]s, two center bypass tracks, and two outside siding tracks. A non-accessible [[side platform]], not normally in use, is located next to the eastern siding track. A footbridge connects the station buildings and the platforms. The terminal for the River Line, with two tracks and two [[side platform]]s, is located across south Clinton Avenue from the main station building.

== History ==
[[File:Trenton station 1911 postcard.jpg|thumb|left|1911 postcard of the station]]
Rail service in Trenton dates back to the days of the [[Camden and Amboy Railroad]], which built a station on East Street in 1837, until it was moved to the current site in 1863.<!--Are they sure it's not the [[New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company]]?--> The C&A was merged into the [[United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company]] in 1867 and acquired by the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] in 1893, which replaced the station the same year.

As with many PRR stations, especially in New Jersey, the station became a [[Penn Central]] station once the [[New York Central Railroad|New York Central]] merged with the PRR in 1968. Amtrak took over intercity railroad service in 1971, but Penn Central continued to serve commuters, even as the station building closed in 1972. In 1976, the bankrupt Penn Central and Amtrak built the new Trenton Rail Station just before Penn Central's rail assets were taken over by [[Conrail]]. It was built to a [[Amtrak Standard Stations Program|standard template]] used at many Amtrak stations built in the 1970s and early 1980s, with a rectangular shape and a boxy, cantilevered metal roof. [[NJ Transit Rail Operations]] took over the station when it acquired Conrail's New Jersey commuter lines in 1983, but the station continued to serve Amtrak as well as [[SEPTA Regional Rail]] to Philadelphia. From 2006 to 2008, a major reconstruction project authorized by NJT took place with $46 million worth of federal aid, and $33 million worth of state funding that resulted in the current Trenton Transit Center.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/TRE/Station_view |title=Trenton Amtrak Station |website=Great American Stations}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
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{{NJT links}}
{{Amtrak web|TRE|Trenton, NJ}}
* {{SEPTA links}}

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