The New York City-bound platform is a side platform more typical of the Northeast Corridor.
The station has an island platform for the Trenton and Long Branch-bound side of the station. Rahway is just northeast of the Perth Amboy Junction, where the Northeast Corridor and the North Jersey Coast lines split at Union Tower, so Rahway is one of several transfer stations on NJ Transit. The City of Rahway completed a $600,000 public plaza in front of the station in 2001.Īnother station in the city, North Rahway, previously existed at Scott Avenue, near the Merck facility, but was closed and demolished in 1993.
It replaced a passenger station built by the Penn Central and the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1974, which was an Amtrak stop from May 1971–November 1975. The present station was built by New Jersey Transit at a cost of $16 million and opened in early 1999.
The station is located in downtown Rahway on an embankment completed in 1913, with bridges over Milton Avenue and Irving and Cherry Streets. The station first opened on January 1, 1836. Rahway station is an NJ Transit train station in Rahway, New Jersey that is located 20.7 miles southwest of New York Penn Station, with service on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines.
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