Mahwah, NJ is a simple Main Line New Jersey Transit Station located in extreme northern New Jersey, less than 1 mile south of the border with Rockland County and New York State. The next stop north is where most service terminates with the exception of Metro-North subsidized Port Jervis Line Trains at Suffern, New York.
Mahwah actually has two station houses, the first built in 1871 was in railroad usage until 1902 when it was moved from its original site when the Main Line was widened to four tracks and the grade-crossing at the station closed. This building was purchased by AJ Winter and used as a storehouse for 50 years, the Mahwah Historical Society was founded in 1965 and the station moved again to its current site in station square across from the modern station in a grassy square. This information is from a historic plaque outside the depot. The building is painted white, with brown trim and a tall overhanging gabled roof. Historic-looking brown with white text Mahwah signs hang from it. Directly behind the depot is historic Erie Railroad Caboose #04940, painted red with the diamond Eire logo. These buildings are part of the Old Station Museum of the Mahwah Historical Society open on Sundays seasonally from 2:00pm to 4:00pm (those were the hours on the sign when I visited in 2014).
The ‘modern’ 1902 station is a cream colored single story station house with a brown roof, on a stone basement base (with a door and window) since the depot is elevated above the surrounding streets. Attached to the depot is has a covered porch area that covers the station TVMs. Inside a portion of the 1902 historic depot is a small enclosed waiting area with a historic looking green bench with armrests, white walls and green trim around the windows. Other portions of the depot have boarded up doors.
For trains the station has two intact tracks, with two low-level 6 car long side platforms. These platforms begin just north of the bridge (with clear evidence that it once had four tracks) over the underpass of Ramapo Avenue and run north. There is extra space between the Hoboken-bound platform and the depot, clearly where another track could run through the station without impacting the depot. Two staircases on each side of the ‘historic’ 1902 depot provide the only access to the Hoboken-bound platform. The Port Jervis-bound platform begins with a staircase up from Ramapo Avenue (who’s sidewalk is the connection between the station platforms), just north of here is another entrance via a short ramp or two steps from Scherer Place. A step off at the end of the ramp down to the street, makes this platform, plus the lack of mini-high platform, or mobile lift also very not accessible for step-free access.
The station has quite minimal parking with a small 34 space lot across Railroad Avenue from the depot (and north of the historic 1871 station) and a slightly larger 52 space lot on the south side of Ramapo Avenue (next to Railroad Avenue) on the Hoboken side of the station. All parking is by permit only for Mahwah residents only.
Photos 1-16: May 29, 2008; 17-64: June 4, 2013
Suffern 
Ramsey Route 17