Ramsey (NJT Main & Bergen County Lines)

Ramsey (also marketed as Ramsey-Main Street since the Ramsey Route 17 station opened in 2004) is a historic NJ Transit Main & Bergen County Line station. The station has two 7 car long low-level side platforms for the two tracked line that begin at the grade-crossing of Main Street, that provides the only connection between the platforms, and run south ending at mini-high platforms for wheelchairs to board at one train door.

Along the Hoboken-bound platform is a historic station house built in 1868 by the Erie Railroad and is the oldest active depot in the state of New Jersey, strangely the platform signs have the modern format lettering, not the old app caps lettering designed to be used at historic stations. The Victorian depot is grey with red trim and a gabled roof. This station house is open during the AM rush hour and contains a ticket office (closed as of March 2021, because of COVID-19) some wooden benches and restrooms. Historic photographs dot the walls.

Each platform leads out to a parking lot, with 205 spaces along the Hoboken-bound platform, and 147 spaces along the Port Jervis-bound platform. All parking lots are by permit only during weekdays. Passengers who want to park for just a day need to head 1.3 miles north to the new Ramsey Route 17 station that opened in 2004 and has a parking garage.
Photos 1-39: June 4, 2013 on a visit by bicycle

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Platform side of the historic station house

Two benches and TVMs outside the station house, which still has a ticket window open for one weekday AM rush hour shift

Looking into the locked depot with cream-colored walls and a wooden bench

The historic depot has modern Ramsey Station signs hanging from it

A platform sign with the modern To Hoboken / NYC directional

Other than the historic station, waiting passengers have a couple decrepit bus shelters

Approaching the mini-high platform ramp for ADA limited ADA access at the southern end of the Hoboken-bound platform

Looking across to the wooden mini-high platform with a bench and a bridge plate, a bus shelter (the only one on this platform) is behind it on the Suffern-bound platform

Ramp up from Accessible parking spaces to the mini-high platform on the Hoboken-bound side of the station, passengers returning on Suffern-bound trains have a long walk/roll to the grade-crossing at the opposite end of the station

The Hoboken-bound platform permit only parking lot

Looking through a window into the historic (closed since it's no longer the morning rush hour) depot

Streetside of the historic depot

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