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The Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, also known as Communipaw Terminal and Jersey City Terminal, was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's waterfront passenger terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey. The terminal was built in 1889, replacing an earlier one that had been in use since 1864.
CNJ's Liberty Street Ferry Terminal in New York City, c. 1900 A 1915 CNJ advertisement for service from New York City to Philadelphia. The earliest railroad ancestor of the CNJ was the Elizabethtown & Somerville Railroad, incorporated in 1831 and opened from Elizabethport to Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1836.
At Elizabethport, the Jersey Central's Perth Amboy & Elizabethport Branch split from the Main Line and ran as far as South Amboy, where it became the New York and Long Branch Railroad. The NY&LB ran as far as Bay Head Junction, NJ and was owned and operated jointly by the CNJ and PRR.
The Newark and New York Railroad was a passenger rail line that ran between Downtown Newark and the Communipaw Terminal at the mouth of the North River (Hudson River) in Jersey City, bridging the Hackensack River and Passaic River just north of their mouths at the Newark Bay in northeastern New Jersey. The Central Railroad of New Jersey ...
Central Railroad of New Jersey: Sound Shore Railroad: CNJ: 1894 1917 Central Railroad of New Jersey: South Branch Railroad: CNJ: 1861 1888 Central Railroad of New Jersey: South Easton and Phillipsburg Railroad: L&HR: 1889 1912 Lehigh and Hudson River Railway: South Jersey Railroad: PRSL 1893 1898 Seacoast Railroad: South Mountain and Boston ...
Central Railroad of New Jersey: October 29, 2006 [115] Glen Gardner Raritan Valley Line: Glen Gardner: Central Railroad of New Jersey: July 2, 1852 [116] January 1, 1984 [117] Closed as part of the truncation of service back to High Bridge on January 1, 1984. [117] Grant Avenue Raritan Valley Line: Plainfield: Central Railroad of New Jersey
Harlem River Terminal 1866–1931 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad: ... Central Railroad of New Jersey: 1859–1864 1864–1976 (Passenger service ended 1967)
The lines operated by NJ Transit were formerly operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, New York and Long Branch Railroad, and Erie Lackawanna Railroad, most of which date from the mid-19th century. From the 1960s onward, the New Jersey Department of Transportation began funding the