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Plainsboro
Former Pennsylvania Railroad station
Plainsboro station site in August 2013.
General information
Location	Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro Township, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°19′58″N 74°36′12″W / 40.332790°N 74.603373°W
Line(s)	Main Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
History
Closed	May 29, 1962[1]
Electrified	December 8, 1932 (Main Line)[2]
Former services
Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Princeton Junction toward Chicago Main Line Monmouth Junction toward New York or Exchange Place

Plainsboro is a defunct commuter railroad station in the Plainsboro Center neighborhood of Plainsboro Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Located south of the Plainsboro Road grade (later bridge) crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line, the station served local trains between Pennsylvania Station in New York City and Trenton. Trains at Plainsboro also served a service between Red Bank and Trenton. The next station to the east was Monmouth Junction while the next westbound station was Princeton Junction. Plainsboro station contained two side platforms.

One of two former stations in the township, Plainsboro station opened c. 1874. A second station existed at Schalks Crossing Road (County Route 683). This station, known as Schalks, closed c. 1914. The railroad built a new brick station depot c. 1919. Plainsboro station closed on May 29, 1962 with the departure of the final Red Bank–Trenton train.

At its peak, Plainsboro station had numerous facilities. The station contained a passenger depot in each direction, both built of brick. The westbound station was a 54-by-19-foot (16.5 m × 5.8 m) structure while the eastbound was a 43-by-11-foot (13.1 m × 3.4 m) building. The former eastbound passenger station, converted into a freight house, was a wooden 35-by-15-foot (10.7 m × 4.6 m) building. Plainsboro station contained two more freight houses, a 14 by 24 feet (4.3 m × 7.3 m) one westbound and a second one eastbound 10 by 20 feet (3.0 m × 6.1 m) in design. The station contained an oil house, bunk house, cattle pens, along with a stable and a shed for horses. There were also two 100,000 US gallons (380,000 L) steel water tanks, a 16 feet (4.9 m) sump pump, an 81-by-45-foot (25 m × 14 m) boiler house. There also was a coal pocket at Plainsboro station.^[3]

• New Jersey State Board of Taxes and Assessment (1922). Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Taxes and Assessment for the Year Ending June 30, 1922. Somerville, New Jersey: Press of the Unionist-Gazette Association.