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From the Raritan train to the 2nd train in Newark, Penn Station?
OK. We have luggage and we have successfully traveled from Raritan, NJ to Newark, Penn Station. We get off the train with the luggage. Because I am disabled (no wheelchair, but full leg brace) I cannot do stairs (did when we went in and didn't have luggage that one time last week, but my husband had to be right by me, we caused a "backup" in people traffic and I paid for it with leg cramping the next day).
We're standing there on the platform at Newark. Everyone else is walking and then going upstairs. We look around. The only thing we see is a freight elevator. We don't see any Newark Penn Station officers on the platform we are on. They are UPSTAIRS.
I need to find an elevator. I send my husband upstairs to ask a Newark train officer where the elevator is located on the platform below. He finds out. We then walk to the elevator and load on the luggage. We arrive upstairs.
Because it takes us longer than the people who walked upstairs, the train going to Penn Station has already left.
What do we do? Will another train come soon or do we have to wait a long time? And how do we know we are getting on the right train to Penn Station New York?
'Where we were standing on platform just after getting off the Raritan train at Newark, there were no escalators. Just stairs.
I called NJ transit just awhile ago and she said there were elevators to upstairs (which is what you are calling the mezzanine level where the 2nd train is waiting right in front of us?).
But she wouldn't answer most of my questions because she said you find someone and ask them when the next train is coming and which train it would be.
She wouldn't answer my question about what if we miss the train that everyone else got on. She seemed upset that I was totally clueless and that I wanted all the details up front about every aspect of the trip, so she said she was going to "hang up now". Really, she didn't believe that I don't know the procedures at the stations.
Your answer confuses me. We didn't have to locate a board to check anything the first time we went in. We just followed the crowd up the stairs and went on the train they all went on.
GEE, this is a REALLY tough call.
The first gave me two tracks that the train mostly leave from (though I'm still not sure where the schedule boards are), and the second directed me to a website that actually does show 3 departure times of the train going from Penn Neward to NY on the day we will be going. That information is extremely valuable, also.
I wish I could have chosen both answers.
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- PassioنLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Did u know that u can always know the next train on http://www.googlemaps.com/? Yes that's true. Just go to http://www.googlemaps.com,/ then go to get directions, then put ur 2 desired locations, then put by public transportation, then go to show options and put the time and date u want, and then it come to u like magic! Good luck!
Source(s): http://www.googlemaps.com/ - 1 decade ago
From the New York-bound platform on the Raritan Valley Line (Platform A), there should be a ramp or escalator that will take you from the platforms to the mezzanine level.
Once at the mezzanine level, you can walk to the waiting room and check the departure board to see when the next New York-bound Northeast Corridor train will be arriving into the station. They usually arrive on Platform 1, however the would sometime arrive on Platform 2.
Both Platform 1 and 2 have escalators that will take you from the mezzanine level to the platform.
I hope this information is very helpful.
Good luck
Source(s): native - ElizabethLv 45 years ago
Take the JFK Airtrain to Jamaica for $5 (buy a metrocard before you exit.) From Jamaica you can either take the LIRR for $8 (buy a ticket before you get on the train) or the E subway for $2.25 (same metrocard, so put $7.25 on it rather than $5). The LIRR is more expensive but considerably faster. At Penn Station, buy a ticket to Raritan, take any NJ Transit train to Newark, change for the Raritan Valley line and get off at Raritan. Schedules and fares are on the NJ Transit web site.
