What is "avenel"

Avenel may refer to:

• Avenel, Victoria, Australia
  • Avenel railway station, Victoria
• Avenel-Hillandale, Maryland, a historic place near Washington, D.C.
• Avenel, New Jersey, United States
  • Avenel (NJT station)
• Avenel (Bedford, Virginia), a NRHP listing in Bedford, Virginia
• Avenel Cooperative Housing Project, a historic cooperative housing project in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California
• TPC Potomac at Avenel Farms, a golf course in Potomac, Maryland
• The Avenel family of Scotland, including Robert Avenel

Avenel is a lightly used New Jersey Transit commuter rail station located in the Avenel section of Woodbridge, New Jersey. On weekdays, it sees 7 northbound and 14 southbound trains stop. There is no weekend service. It is located on the North Jersey Coast Line between Rahway and Woodbridge stations. The station is one of three located in Woodbridge, with the Woodbridge station joining it on the North Jersey Coast Line and Metropark Station serving the Iselin section of Woodbridge on the Northeast Corridor Line.

The station has two short three-car high-level side platforms on two tracks with tactile warning strips and lampposts. It had been slated for closing by former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine because of the excessive costs of adding elevators for handicapped access. Ramps were installed instead to each platform at their southern ends.

The station is located directly over Avenel Street, which has a staircase on its northern sidewalk going up to each platform. The staircase to the New York-bound platform is enclosed while the one to the Long Branch-bound platform is exposed alongside the overpass. At the top of the stairs, each platform has a double long bus shelter with a white domed roof and bench.

The platforms have an additional entrance/exit at their southern ends. On each side, a twisting ramp and staircase goes to the service roads of Avenel Street. A pedestrian tunnel with staircases down at each end and concrete entry portals connect the platforms. The station's only Ticket Vending Machine, installed in May 2011, is located in a bus shelter along the end of the street beneath the Newark-bound platform.

Avenel, also known as the William M. Burwell House, is a historic home located at Bedford, Virginia. It was built about 1836, and is a two-story, brick dwelling with a blend of Federal and Greek Revival styling. It is topped by a hipped roof and has a one-story wraparound porch. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse, hen house, a frame 19th-century barn, and site of a kitchen building.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Bedford Historic District.