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The Burlington and Mount Holly Railroad was consolidated with the Camden, Moorestown, Hainesport and Mount Holly Horse Car Railroad on May 2, 1866, to form the Camden and Burlington County Railroad. [2] The new company built west from Mount Holly to Pavonia (near Camden), also on the Camden and Amboy's main line. This extension was completed on ...
In 1919, the New Jersey State Highway Commission built a new road that became part of the Lincoln Highway, an early plan to create a transcontinental highway.The stretch was constructed on the west side of the Pennsylvania Railroad (now the Northeast Corridor) from near the northeast of Dow Avenue between Colonia and Iselin to Cedar Street in Menlo Park, to avoid two railroad crossings.
The Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad was incorporated in 1905 to build a low-grade line from Morrisville, Pennsylvania, to Colonia, New Jersey. It was never completed, [37] but some work was done in the Trenton area, including bridge piers in the Delaware River. North of Colonia, the alignment was going to be separate, but instead two extra ...
On March 4, 1931, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) ordered the two companies to join their southern New Jersey lines into one company. The Consolidation Agreement decreed that the Pennsylvania Railroad had two-thirds ownership, and the Reading Company had one-third ownership. [3]
The Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad was chartered in 1864 and completed in 1868; it linked the towns of Pemberton and Hightstown, a total of 24 miles (39 km). [1] The first President of the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad was Nathaniel Scudder Rue, Jr., who lived in Cream Ridge, NJ (he also founded the first national bank in New Jersey, The First National Bank of Hightstown).
Southern New Jersey Railroad: 1937 1940 N/A Speedwell Lake Railroad: 1904 New Jersey and Pennsylvania Railroad: Squankum and Freehold Marl Company: PRR: 1868 1879 Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad: Staten Island Railroad: SIRC B&O: 1971 1991 N/A Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad: B&O: 1880 1899 Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway
Upon the old line's closing, the Kingston Branch, serving Kingston, New Jersey, began service on the old line in 1866. [3] A branch to Florence, New Jersey was opened in 1872. [3] The New Jersey Rail Road, Camden and Amboy Railroad, and Delaware and Raritan Canal Company moved to a closer association in 1867 when they created a joint board of ...
The majority of the line was once the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad.The first segment, which runs between Easton and Allentown, opened in September 1855.Later extensions and corporate acquisitions carried the Lehigh Valley main line to Buffalo, New York to the west and Perth Amboy, New Jersey to the east.