In 1869, through the efforts of prominent Branchville resident William H. Bell, the Sussex Railroad was completed with its line ending in Branchville borough, and because Bell himself finished the line it was for a time called the Branchville Railroad. The first passenger train arrived on July 3, 1869. Facilities at this site included the Branchville Station, Engine House, Livestock Chute, Water Tower, and a 57-foot diameter turntable, which was used to turn locomotives by hand for their return trip to points east. The Sussex Railroad later became part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and then part of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad in 1960. Several years later, as eastern railroading declined, the Erie-Lackawanna abandoned the line from Branchville to Andover, New Jersey. The last passenger train left this site on July 10, 1966, and the station, after being moved to an adjacent site for restoration, was destroyed by a winter storm in 1994.