Woodbridge: Weekend Service, More Trains Coming To Avenel Station

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Whoa! Great news for the Woodbridge community: NJ Transit just announced they are expanding weekday service at the Avenel train station by more than 40 percent.

More weekday trains will be added and the Avenel train station will get weekend service for the first time since April 1985. The service enhancements will begin this Sunday, September 8.

The new weekend service will include 21 stops each day on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Weekday service will be increased from 27 to 38 stops, primarily during midday and late evening hours. See a full schedule below.

This is in direct response to community requests and ridership growth at the Avenel station, said NJ Transit.

"In this case, our customers asked for more service. We listened and delivered!" said NJ Transit president and CEO Kevin Corbett. “This expansion of service for our Avenel customers will spur economic growth in and around Woodbridge and improve quality of life for the hundreds of customers who use this station every day.”

Woodbridge's decision to permit a 500-unit "transit-village" apartment complex at the Avenel station — on the site of the former General Dynamics plant — is clearly paying off, as the area around the station is now booming with residents and business. The complex is called Station Village at Avenel. There is also the Avenel Performing Arts Center located right there, which just opened this past April.

Related: The Station Village Apartments Open At Avenel Train Station (October 2017)

Woodbridge's Avenel Performing Arts Center Opens To Fanfare (April 2019)

“Station Village at Avenel, the Avenel Performing Arts Center and the North Jersey Coast Line commuter train station represent a $50 million transit-related development project,” said Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. "(There was) a need to add additional stops that will better serve Avenel Station Village commuters and visitors attending performances at the arts center."

McCormac said Woodbridge will also be expanding the availability of commuter parking at several lots near the station.

The added weekday stops will be as follows:

Inbound to Penn Station New York

• Train 3222 departing 7:25 a.m.
• Train 3248 departing 12:44 p.m.
• Train 3252 departing 2:44 p.m.
• Train 3516 departing 8:18 p.m.
• Train 3288 departing 11:12 p.m.
• Train 3200 departing 1:09 a.m.

NOTE: Train 3318 will no longer stop at Avenel. Customers can use Trains 2602 (6:50 a.m.), 3502 (7:18 a.m.) or 3222 (7:25 a.m.)

Outbound from New York

• Train 3231 arriving 10:31 a.m.
• Train 3239 arriving 12:28 p.m.
• Train 3247 arriving 2:24 p.m.
• Train 2605 arriving 4:58 p.m.
• Train 3201 arriving 12:46 a.m.
• Train 3205 arriving 1:41 a.m.