Belmar station is an active commuter railroad station in the eponymous borough of Belmar, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Located in Belmar Plaza between 8th and 10th Avenues, the station serves trains of NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, which operates out of New York Penn Station. Belmar station operates in the diesel-only section between Bay Head in Ocean County and Long Branch. The station consists of two low-level side platforms with three parking lots along 10th Avenue available for commuters. The former station built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey stands on the inbound platform.
History Belmar station opened as part of an extension from Asbury Park–Ocean Grove station of the New York and Long Branch Railroad on September 14, 1875, as Ocean Beach. The name of the station was changed to Belmar when the municipality changed its name from Ocean Beach to Elcho to Belmar in a month's span in 1889.
Station layout The station has two low-level brick cobblestone side platforms.
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Station from 8th Avenue from Google Maps Street View