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Port Reading is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [9] in Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] As of the 2020 census , the population was 3,921.
The Port Reading Railroad started at the Port Reading Junction in Manville, New Jersey (near Bound Brook) with the Lehigh Valley Railroad and Central Railroad of New Jersey and headed eastward across northern Middlesex County, New Jersey to a terminus port called Port Reading, which was situated on the Arthur Kill in Woodbridge Township near Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Port Reading Refinery, also known as Hess Refinery, was an oil refinery located in Perth Amboy and Port Reading, New Jersey. It was constructed by Hess Oil under Leon Hess in 1958. It was a simple refinery which further processed other refinery's product which began with heavy sour crude.
Port Reading Junction is a major rail junction (MANS) in Manville, New Jersey serving rail freight travelling between the Port of New York and New Jersey in Gateway Region of western New Jersey and points to the south and west. It is the site of Manville Yard. [1] [2]
The former CNJ main line is now NJ Transit's Raritan passenger line. A branch line called the Port Reading Secondary, formerly called the Port Reading Railroad (RDG), originates at Bound Brook Junction and crosses northern Middlesex County to connect with the Chemical Coast line in Eastern Middlesex County.
It was granted its charter by the state of New Jersey on February 5, 1853, [17] [7] to build a line from Camden, New Jersey to Cape May, New Jersey. An additional stock subscription of 1,000 shares by one director amounting to $200,000 was made at the company's meeting on May 17, bringing the total subscriptions to $450,000. [ 18 ]
WOODBRIDGE – The Cypress Park Recreational Complex on West Avenue in the Port Reading section has two new street hockey rinks, refurbished soccer fields and other amenities now that Cypress Park ...
The Port Reading Railroad operates its road as a part of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company's system, and uses in common with other roads of that system equipment owned by the Reading Company. Corporate History. The Port Reading Railroad was incorporated November 5, 1890, under the general laws of the State of New Jersey. Its ...