Hopewell is a defunct commuter railroad station in the eponymous borough of Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey. Located on Railroad Place east of North Greenwood Avenue, the station served trains of Conrail's West Trenton Line between Newark Penn Station and West Trenton, New Jersey. Hopewell station serviced trains of the Reading Railroad, including the Crusader and Wall Street. The station had two low-level side platforms. The 1876-built railroad depot, which is on the state and national registers of Historic Places, stands on Railroad Place, overlooking the single track. The former passenger line currently serves freight trains as part of CSX Transportation's Trenton Subdivision.
Hopewell station opened on May 1, 1876 as part of the introduction of regular passenger service on the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad. The station agent was eliminated in October 1976 as part of operational cuts by Conrail. Passenger service ended in its entirety on December 3, 1982. The railroad depot was added to the Historic Places registers in 1984 as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource. NJ Transit has proposed operating new railroad service between West Trenton and Newark Penn Station as part of a new West Trenton Line. This would include a new platform and station at Hopewell.
History The Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad built the station in 1876 as part of the planned National Railway route between New York City and Washington, D.C. The station was leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway in 1879. Train service to the station was terminated in 1982.
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See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey List of New Jersey Transit stations
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