Tuckahoe- Cape May: Cape May Seashore Lines, Southern Railroad of New Jersey.Palermo-Ocean City: leased to city of Ocean City in 1999 for use as interim Ocean City Bike Path rail trail.Winslow Junction-Palmero/Beesley's Point: CSAO.Red Bank -South Lakewood: Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO).Bloomsbury- Phillipsburg: trackage removed due to construction of Interstate 78 in 1989.These lines are either leased for freight/ tourist service, interim rail trail use, or remain derelict: These lines were purchased by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in the late 1970s for railbanking purposes, with ownership transferring to NJ Transit upon its creation in 1979. NJTR also owns several lines not used for regular passenger service. A similar situation exists for Conrail on the Atlantic City Line.īelow is a list of NJ Transit lines and freight lines that operate on them: The Morristown & Erie Railway can only use NJT trackage to get between its owned trackage it cannot serve customers on NJ Transit trackage. Conrail (CSAO), CSX, Norfolk Southern (NS) and several short lines ( Cape May Seashore Lines (CMSL), Dover and Delaware River Railroad (DD), Morristown & Erie Railway (M&E), and Southern Railroad of New Jersey (SRNJ)) currently have trackage rights contracts to operate freight service on NJ Transit lines. Montclair State University (electric service)Īlthough NJ Transit itself does not carry freight, NJTR allows freight service to be operated over its lines via trackage rights agreements with several railroads. New York Penn Station ( Midtown Direct service) Hoboken Terminal (diesel and other electric service) Hoboken Terminal (1 inbound weekday train) New York Penn Station (limited weekday trains) This division also includes the Atlantic City Line formerly operated by the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. Newark Division, formerly operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey and New York and Long Branch Railroad, operates through Newark Penn Station via the Northeast Corridor, with most trains continuing to New York Penn Station.Hoboken Division, formerly operated by the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, runs from Hoboken Terminal or through Newark – Broad Street and includes Midtown Direct service via the Kearny Connection.The two networks were not integrated until the opening of Secaucus Junction in 2003 enabled passengers to transfer between lines bound for New York and Hoboken.Īs of 2012, NJ Transit's commuter rail network consists of 11 lines and 164 stations, primarily concentrated in northern New Jersey, with one line running between Atlantic City and Philadelphia. The system took its current form in 1983, when NJ Transit took over all commuter service in New Jersey. By 1976, the lines were all operated by Conrail under contract to NJDOT. From the 1960s onward, the New Jersey Department of Transportation began subsidizing the commuter lines. The lines operated by NJ Transit were formerly operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey and New York and Long Branch Railroad and Erie Lackawanna Railroad, most of which date from the mid-19th century. This does not include NJ Transit's light rail operations. The commuter rail lines had an average weekday ridership of 306,892 from June 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016, making it the second-busiest commuter railroad in North America as well as the longest by route length. NJ Transit also operates rail service in Orange and Rockland counties in New York under contract to Metro-North Railroad. It operates commuter rail service in New Jersey, with most service centered on transportation to and from New York City, Hoboken, and Newark. NJ Transit Rail Operations ( reporting mark NJTR) is the rail division of NJ Transit. North and Central Jersey, White Horse Pike corridor, Hudson ValleyĤ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge NJ Transit provides rail service throughout northern New Jersey, between Philadelphia and Atlantic City in southern New Jersey, and in the lower Hudson Valley west of the Hudson River.
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