page_title: Walnut Street station (NJ Transit)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Walnut Street station (NJ Transit) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the former Montclair Station on the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad subsidiary of the Erie Railroad facing the original station depot and freight house.
context_page_description: Walnut Street is a New Jersey Transit station on Walnut Street at Depot Square in Montclair, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. It is the most used station on the Montclair–Boonton Line. Walnut Street is the second or fifth of six stops that are in Montclair along the Montclair-Boonton line. It gets its name from the street that crosses the railroad tracks next to the station. It has a farmers' market in its parking lot from the summer to the early fall.
  The station house, built in 1953, has been leased out as a restaurant for many years. The most recent tenant to occupy the space, Mezoco Mexican Taqueria, opened in 2016.
context_section_description: Built in 1873 by the Montclair Railway, the station was the Erie Railroad's main station in Montclair. The station was formerly known as Montclair. In 1953, the current building was erected and the old station was demolished. On October 23, 1973, a freight train derailed at the station. The Montclair Connection, which merged the Montclair Branch and the Boonton Line, is a few streets after the station.
caption: The former Erie Plaza station in Montclair as viewed in 1909. This station was demolished in 1953
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