Finderne (NJT station)

Finderne
File:Finderne Station site.JPG The former site of the Finderne Station prior to sunset in January 2010.
Location	Finderne Avenue (County Route 533), Finderne, New Jersey
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)
Platforms	None
Tracks	2
Other information
Fare zone	15
History
Closed	October 29, 2006
Previous names	Manville-Finderne Manville
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Somerville toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Bridgewater toward Hoboken or New York Penn Station

Finderne or Manville-Finderne was a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in the Finderne, New Jersey. Located along Finderne Avenue (Somerset County Route 533), the station contained only a platform and old station tracks.

The station, which once housed a small building between the tracks, had been without facilities for some time prior to its closure. The last train to service Finderne was the 4:18 PM train to Newark Penn Station on October 27, 2006. In its last years the station had only three trains stopping on weekdays (one morning train from Newark Penn Station and two afternoon trains to Newark Penn Station) and none on weekends.

Despite the lack of both a building and easy accessibility, train conductors have confirmed to the curious that there were in fact passengers who used the stop, mostly employees of a nearby industrial plant. The station was accessible by a stairway from Van Veghten's Bridge, which spans the Raritan River. The stairway is on the west side of the road on the north bank of the river.

An historical photo of the Finderne station can be seen in the Arcadia Publishing historical photo book "Somerset County in Postcards," by Alan A. Siegel, Somerset County Historical Society (ISBN 0-7385-0078-X). The photo is of a station house that no longer exists.

See also

• List of New Jersey Transit stations