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Originally
a stop on the
Morris and Essex Division of the old Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the Roseville train station was
perhaps most notable as the junction with the old Newark & Bloomfield
RR, which brought travelers from Montclair and Bloomfield to the DL&W's
main line at Roseville Avenue, and from there to downtown Newark, Hoboken
and Jersey City. In 1868 the DL&W bought the N&B and renamed
that northern spur the Montclair Branch, which from 1928 to 1957
held the distinction of being the most heavily traveled branch in the United
States. In 1960 the DL&W merged with the Erie (which oddly enough
had run a competing Montclair service on nearby tracks) and became the
Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. Below, mostly from the archives
of the Newark Public Library, are photos of the stations built in Roseville
and other assorted images of the rail line that served our old neighborhood
until the 1970s.
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