The station, which contained two low-level side platforms, operated trains between Hoboken Terminal and locations west to Dover and Hackettstown.Railroad service through the Arlington neighborhood began on January 1, 1873 with the introduction of the Montclair Railway between Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City to Monks in West Milford.[3] On September 8, 1965, three Kearny High School students were struck and killed by a two car Erie Lackawanna train.Thinking the warning lights were for a departing east bound train (towards Hoboken), the three students went around the barrier.A boxcar parked in a siding next to the station blocked the victims from seeing the oncoming west bound express train.