Carlton Hill

Rutherford, Italy

Carlton Hill station is a defunct commuter railroad station in the Carlton Hill section of East Rutherford and Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey. Located on Jackson Street (County Route 507) at the junction with West Erie Avenue, trains at Carlton Hill station were operated by the Erie Railroad

on its main line between Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey and Dearborn Station in Chicago, Illinois. The station was the first one west of Rutherford Junction, where the Bergen County Railroad (now the NJ Transit Bergen County Line) forked towards Ridgewood station. Carlton Hill station had two low-level side platforms with a wooden station depot on the eastbound platform. Service in the area began with the opening of the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad from Passaic to Boiling Springs (modern-day Rutherford) on December 4, 1833. The first station in the area opened c. 1870 as Santiago Park. In late May 1874, the station name was changed to West Rutherford, a name it would hold until 1888 when it became Carlton Hill. The wooden station depot was built that year by the Erie Railroad. Railroad service on the main line continued until April 2, 1963, when the tracks were removed...

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