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Clifton was a former train station for the Erie Railroad and Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in the city of Clifton, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. Located at the intersection of Getty Avenue and Clifton Avenue, the station served as part of the Main Line. The station consisted of tracks on an elevated line above Getty Avenue with the 1952-built station depot on the side. After the closure of Harrison Street station, the station to the southeast was Passaic and the next station to the northwest was the Lake View station in nearby Paterson.
Wanaque–Midvale was a former commuter railroad station of the Erie Railroad's New York and Greenwood Lake Railway branch in Wanaque, New Jersey, United States. When built in 1873, the station served trains running from Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City to Sterling Forest on the New York–New Jersey border alongside Greenwood Lake and trains going to Ringwood on the Ringwood Branch. At the time there were two stations, one at Wanaque and one at Midvale. The next station northbound towards Sterling Forest was Boardville; heading towards Ringwood it was Erskine. The next station south was Haskell.
Pompton–Riverdale is a former railroad station in the borough of Riverdale. Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Located at 13 Pompton–Hamburg Turnpike, the station was a stop on the Greenwood Lake Division of the Erie Railroad. A single side platform station with two tracks, the current station was built in 1919. The next station to the north was Pompton Junction, where connections were available to the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, another Erie Railroad subsidiary. The next station south was Pompton Plains.
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