This was constructed due to the lack of freight along its passenger lines and stretched from the Denville station to Hoboken Terminal via Boonton and Paterson.

[8] During the summer of 2011 the Lyndhurst station went under some minor renovations, including new stair supports and a new roof over a portion of the southern (eastbound) platform.

In August 2012, NJT announced that the $2.5 million would be spent to make the station compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).

[9] According to NJT, there are plans to renovate the historic station and make it ADA compliant at cost estimated in 2014 to be $22 million, though as of July 2014 there were no design or construction contracts.

There are two lengthy flights of wooden stairs to reach both the eastbound and westbound tracks, the platforms of which are particularly low and in state of disrepair.