Bradley Beach

Neptune Township, Italy

Bradley Beach station is an active commuter railroad station in the eponymous borough of Bradley Beach, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Located at Railroad Square, Bradley Beach station serves trains of NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line between Bay Head in Ocean County and New York Penn Station. Bra

dley Beach station is on the diesel only section of the line south of Long Branch. The station has a pair of low-level side platforms, one of which parallels Memorial Drive and has the standing Central Railroad of New Jersey depot on the inbound platform. A parking lot surrounds the station depot, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and hosts a café. Built on a site owned by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, Mayor James A. Bradley of Asbury Park spent $1,500 to build a new station on their property. The station was little more than a small shanty formerly used as a lecture hall at the Asbury Park Excursion Grounds. Bradley Beach station opened to pomp and circumstance on June 24, 1893. Repeatedly promised a new station by New York and Long Branch Railroad Superintendent Rufus Blodgett, no progress was made until the railroad came under the supervision of Lee W. Berry...

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