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Phillipsburg Union Station is an active railroad station museum, in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, United States, at 178 South Main Street.Opened in 1914, Union Station was built by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) and shared with the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) and was situated where the lines merged before the bridge crossing the Delaware River.
The stations at Branchport and West End were eliminated with the opening of the new Long Branch station on June 8, 1955. [71] The depot caught fire on July 1–2, 1956 and condemned. [72] Long Branch The station depot built at Long Branch in 1891 was demolished in 1955 by a contractor from Belford, New Jersey. [73] West End June 8, 1955 [71]
In 1882, the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway made a deal with PRR to operate on the Bel-Del between Phillipsburg and Belvidere where L&HR's track to Maybrook, New York connects. By the 1950s, steam locomotives had been replaced with diesel operated self-propelled doodlebugs as a cost-saving measure resulting from dwindling patronage.
The Belvidere & Delaware River Railway Company (reporting mark BDRV) also known as Delaware River Railroad or Bel-Del, is a class III railroad in the United States. [1] It was formed in 1995 when the Conrail Delaware Secondary line was purchased by the Black River Railroad System, which operates several railroad services in western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
CNJ train at Plainfield station in 1910. In 1901, the Reading Company (RDG), successor to the Philadelphia & Reading, acquired control of the CNJ through purchase of a majority of its stock, and at about the same time Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) acquired control of the RDG, gaining access to New York over RDG and CNJ rails. [1] [3]
NJ Transit Rail Operations provides passenger service on 12 lines at a total of 166 stations, some operated in conjunction with Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad (MNR). [1] NJ Transit Rail Operations (NJTR) was established by NJ Transit (NJT) to run commuter rail operations in New Jersey.
At Phillipsburg, New Jersey, near the former Phillipsburg Union Station, the line interchanges with the Dover and Delaware River Railroad, which operates along the Washington Secondary line, and the Belvidere and Delaware River Railway which also passes over the Belvidere and Delaware River after that.
Service beyond High Bridge to Phillipsburg Union Station in Phillipsburg was discontinued in December 1983 because of low ridership. [13] Then, in November 1989, the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJ DOT) severed the rail line between Alpha and Phillipsburg during construction of I-78. This was done in order to avoid having to build ...