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 #701468  by Port Jervis
 
I took these in Bernardsville on Morristown Road about a quarter of a mile west and about 50 yards north of the Gladstone branch ROW. This building LOOKS like a railroad station, but it's not on the railroad itself, and it's orientation conflicts with all those which surround it. Can anyone explain what it is? Was it moved from elsewhere? Was the Bernardsville station moved when the DL&W extended it to Gladstone? Or is it just a building which looks like an ex-RR depot, but never was. It's architecture screams railroad depot:

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 #701606  by blockline4180
 
Yes, I believe that was the former DL&W Bernardsville train depot, and it was moved to the current spot.
 #702212  by Port Jervis
 
blockline4180 wrote:Yes, I believe that was the former DL&W Bernardsville train depot, and it was moved to the current spot.
Thanks. Looks eerily like the building used in "The Station Agent", though I know it wasn't.
 #800212  by Schuylkill Valley
 
I call one of our members of Project 565, He's from Bernarsville,NJ. ,He told me they moved the Original DL&W station in around 1910 and replaced it with one made of stone. This building is now used as an office for the local news paper company.

Len.
 #802677  by R36 Combine Coach
 
That is an original P&D Queen Anne station, of which Gladstone, Peapack and Murray Hill also survive.

The current Bernardsville station (concrete) was built 1900. According to Taber, the concrete freight house dated from 1906.