It was located on the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway Main Line, which provided passenger service between the 1870s and 1960s.

[6] By March 1872, the NJM line had been extended west from Hackensack, with stations at Maywood, Paterson (at Vreeland Avenue and two others) Wortendyke, and Butler, among others, to Newfoundland.

It was later extended to Sparta, Newton, Blairstown and across the Delaware River to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Soon thereafter trains were running east and south to the Hudson River waterfront at Pennsylvania Railroad's depot in Jersey City using the Bergen Hill Cut.

[8] The station was north of Hackensack Junction, where the NYSW heading southward ran parallel to the West Shore Railroad, now CSX River Subdivision.