Local History: Train Station Was Moved from Wyoming

In 1894, 19 trains in each direction were stopping at the Wyoming train station, seen here at it's location at the bottom of Wyoming Avenue.

The train station was also used for church services before the first Wyoming Presbyterian Church was built and briefly housed classes for local children, before the first Wyoming School was built.

An unidentified newspaper article dated Nov. 10, 1907 noted:

"Beginning to-day, the people of Wyoming will board and leave their trains from the now completed new Millburn station. There is wide dissatisfaction among the local commuters, many of whom will be obliged to walk a half mile further to reach the new station. The only consolation is the hope that with the Millburn station completed and much nearer Wyoming than the old Millburn station. Many more trains will be placed at their service for the trouble of going the longer distance. The old Wyoming station that for many years had been an eyesore to the community will be torn down and the station agent has been transferred to East Orange."

Other information in the historical society archives indicates that in order to make the Millburn station more accessible for the Wyoming commuters, it was agreed to extend Glen Avenue to Sagamore Road, then called Prospect Street, in order that the commuters need not walk to Millburn Avenue to get to the station.

The Wyoming to Summit Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western (DL&W) ticket is in the collection of the Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society.