Cherry Hill was the first infill station opened on the Atlantic City Line although it was originally serviced primarily by Amtrak’s Atlantic City Express trains from the stations opening on July 2, 1994 (replacing Lindenwold) until this service was discontinued on April 2, 1995 when all service on the line was replaced by today’s all local Atlantic City Line NJ Transit service. The station is located across the site of the Garden State Racetrack that closed in 2001 (so the station may have had a real destination at it when it opened, although I don’t believe there was a way to cross the tracks). The former racetrack has now been turned into a mixed-use development. The station when it originally opened was along a field (with a driveway leading north of the station to the current parking lot) with the Garden State Pavilion Shopping Center soon built behind the station.
The station consists of a single platform along a short two track section of the line where a siding is. This siding was where Atlantic City Line trains before most were extended into Philadelphia when Amtrak was still operated would layover after terminating at Lindenwold. There are intermediate switches in the siding just east of the station platform. These switches allow an Atlantic City-bound train from Philadelphia to stop at the station before taking the siding and allowing a Philadelphia-bound train to pass before this train stops at the station.
The platform contains 3 glass shelter structures. These have silver curving roofs with Cherry Hill written in the glass in white next to the NJT 3 stripes logo. The platform signs are both in normal NJT font and incorrect font with a bolder typeface that is unique to this station. Two staircases and ramps lead off the platform to a small connecting bus stop, with a red brick surface, and a small set of ADA accessible parking spaces.
The area behind these parking spaces is the loading dock at the back of a ShopRite Grocery Store with the station platform oddly placed in the Garden State Pavilion Shopping Center strip mall. To reach the station’s parking lot passengers must walk north along the station’s driveway (there is a sidewalk) on the backside of the ShopRite to a separate section of the parking lot with about 350 spaces. This section of the parking lot has large New Jersey Transit Cherry Hill Station Signs to attract passing motorists and mark the section of the parking lot.
There is also a large Cherry Hill Station sign along the Marlton Turnpike (NJ-70) with an arrow indicating to walk down Cornell Avenue to reach the rail station. The intersection of Cornell Avenue also has additional connecting buses that are a bit of a walk into the station.
The site of the station is so big that the shopping center has two additional bus stops for Route 450, one along the regular railroad parking lot, and another in the access road south of the station, just across from ShopRite.
Across from the tracks from the train platform is a Costco and some other mixed-use development (including some homes). Unfortunately building a pedestrian grade-crossing across the train tracks to connect these destinations with rail access has been talked about but there were no signs of construction when I visited the station in 2023.
Photos 1-50 September 1, 2024;
Pennsauken 
Lindenwold