Summit (NJT station)

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Coordinates: 40°42′59.6″N 74°21′27.9″W / 40.716556, -74.35775

Summit New Jersey Transit commuter rail station
Image:Summit NJT station 2.jpg
Gladstone line EMU train waiting on Track 1 in view from east end of platform
Station statistics
Lines	Gladstone Branch Morristown Line
Connections	NJT Bus: 70, 986 Lakeland: 78
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Other information
Accessible	Image:Wheelchair symbol.svg
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Fare zone	9
Traffic
Passengers (2005)	836,680 Image:Straight Line Steady.svg 0%
Services
Preceding station     New Jersey Transit     Following station   New Providence toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Short Hills toward Hoboken or New York Penn Chatham toward Hackettstown Morristown Line

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 high-level platform. It has a small coffee and newspaper shop that is open at morning commute time.

The station was cosmetically renovated at some expense for the 2005 PGA Championship at the Baltusrol Golf Club in nearby Springfield.

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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Summit NJT station.jpg Station building on Union Place in downtown Summit