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The Central Railroad of New Jersey was among the railroads merged into Conrail in April 1976. Conrail began closing segments of the former NJS, and in 1978 severed the main line by abandoning the stretch through the Pine Barrens from Lakehurst to Winslow Junction. The Toms River branch (diverging at Lakehurst) was closed by 1988.
New York New Jersey Rail, LLC; Overview; Headquarters: Greenville, Jersey City, New Jersey: Reporting mark: NYNJ: Locale: Upper New York Bay: Dates of operation: 2006– Predecessor: New York Cross Harbor Railroad: Technical; Track gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Length: 4 miles (6 kilometers) (car float) 4.5 miles (7 ...
This is a route-map template for the New Jersey and New York Railroad, a United States railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The segments of the two former railroad lines in New York – north of Spring Valley to Haverstraw and north of Nanuet to New City – are no longer in service. In 1956, NJ&NY reported 4.4 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 21 million passenger-miles on 39 miles of railroad.
The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company was incorporated in December 1906 to operate a passenger railroad system between New York and New Jersey via the Uptown and Downtown Tubes. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The Downtown Tubes, located about 1.25 miles (2.01 km) south of the uptown pair, were well under construction by that time, [ 7 ] : 19 as 3,000 feet ...
A map of the River Line and former River Line at its south end; the River Line comes from the northwest corner, and used to turn east through the tunnel and then south along the river. The River Line was a Conrail rail line located between Jersey City, New Jersey and Selkirk, New York, United States.
The Manhattan Transfer station was a passenger transfer station in Harrison, New Jersey, east of Newark, 8.8 miles (14.2 km) west of New York Penn Station on the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) main line, now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. It operated from 1910 to 1937 and consisted of two 1,100 feet (340 m) car-floor-level platforms, one on each ...
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.