text: roseville avenue ( njt station ) roseville avenue was a transfer station on new jersey transit 's morris & essex lines ( consisting of the montclair branch , morristown line and gladstone branch ) in newark , new jersey , united states . the station was built by the delaware , lackawanna and western railroad in 1903 during a track depression to serve newark 's roseville neighborhood . it once had two tracks ( one each eastbound and westbound ) on the lackawanna mainline and two low - wall platforms , with an additional platform along the montclair - boonton line . the station remained in service during most of the 20th century , until new jersey transit closed the station on september 16 , 1984 . today , the only landmarks that mark the former station site are a metal utility box labeled " roseville , " and several flights of concrete stairs in the sides of the concrete - lined depression in which the track of the morristown line runs between the east orange and newark broad street stations . shortly eastward of this structure , the montclair - boonton line splits from the morristown line on its way to montclair , boonton , and denville . station structure roseville avenue station consisted of two different sets of double track to serve passenger trains for the delaware , lackawanna , and western railroad 's montclair branch ( now the montclair - boonton line ) and the delaware , lackawanna , and western railroad 's morris & essex lines ( now the morristown line and the gladstone branch ) . the tracks were 22 feet ( 6 . 7 m ) below the street level , and the station below street level was a brick passenger station extending to the roseville avenue bridge at seventh avenue . the other structure stood on street level , above the cut , served the morris and essex line just north of the fork at roseville . the station had four platforms , two for the montclair branch and two for the morristown / gladstone lines in both direction . roseville tower was the interlocking tower at street - level in roseville that handled the nearby fork of the three lines ( montclair , morristown and gladstone ) . the tower was used on limited services , with only three different shifts , two of which were manned . the tower was run from 5 a.m. in the morning to 10 p.m. in the evening manned . the rest of the time , the tower was set on automatic . history original station and track depression the original roseville avenue station dates back to the opening of the morris & essex railroad station in 1856 , when tracks were constructed through the roseville district of newark . these tracks went along sixth and seventh avenues , while the original station served the montclair branch at a fork along seventh avenue and the morris & essex main line along sixth avenue . the station was designed with two platforms , one along each line , the morris & essex first made use of the montclair branch property in april 1868 after buying the newark and bloomfield railroad . in april 1901 , the delaware , lackawanna and western railroad announced track depression and raising throughout portions of the line through newark and the oranges . although the depression went into newark , most of the debate over localities of stations was basically into the oranges . in 1903 , the track depression reached the roseville avenue station , and the lines were depressed through roseville . the new station built during the track depression was of similar style , with the station in the middle of the five - track interlocking , with one platform servicing the montclair branch 's two tracks and one for the main line 's two tracks . rather than crossing at - grade , roseville avenue was bridged over the tracks with a brand new street - level interlocking tower present at the intersection of roseville and seventh avenues . delaware , lackawanna and western , and erie – lackawanna ownership during the ownership of the delaware , lackawanna and western railroad , roseville avenue prospered , soon receiving sixty - eight stops by trains daily . this caught attention during a 1913 complaint to the new jersey board of public utilities by charles mccausland . the major complaint from mccausland cited that the lackawanna was not providing quality seating service on trains that stop at roseville , and several which led to overcrowding , while several bypassing trains did not suffer from such effects . the plaintiff , mccausland , cited that the need for the sixty - eight trains was " additional but unnecessary " . the board of public utility commissioners did not justify any changes or wrongdoing by the railroad , and as a result , no changes to service were made at roseville avenue . the station continued receiving major service over the next five decades , but by 1966 , fewer trains stopped at the station , with limited daily service to the station past the 4 : 33 p.m. train from hoboken terminal . six years later , on june 24 , 1972 , the erie – lackawanna railroad , who now maintained the station , announced further cutbacks on station service , axing twenty - three train stops at roseville avenue for both directions of service . the changes were made as part of major commuter service appropriations and the lack of patronage at the station . from that point , roseville avenue went from 37 westbound trains to 14 , while eastbound was cut from 37 to 16 . service on saturdays were cut to flag stops only , while the station received no sunday service at all . on april 1 , 1976 , the erie – lackawanna railroad became defunct , and merged into consolidated rail corporation ( conrail ) , with service sponsored by the new jersey department of transportation . new jersey transit use and eventual closure after the takeover of service along the former morris & essex lines by new jersey transit from conrail in 1982 , the service at the roseville avenue station remained minimal . many trains bypassed the station in favor of going to the nearby newark broad street station . trains continued to serve the roseville avenue station throughout 1982 and 1983 , and service continued to be condensed during 1984 . however , as of the official september 1984 timetables , service was cut from roseville avenue in favor of newark broad street to grove street , east orange ( on the morris & essex ) or ampere ( on the montclair branch ) , both of which closed in april 1991 . on september 16 , 1984 , trains began bypassing roseville avenue , and the station was closed permanently . although the station was closed , roseville tower , for the interlocking between the montclair branch and morris & essex lines , remained in service for almost two more decades . in 2002 , during construction of the montclair connection , the tower was demolished in favor of expanding the cut in roseville for a second track of the new montclair - boonton line .