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The Newark Bay Bridge of the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) was a railroad bridge in New Jersey that connected Elizabethport and Bayonne at the southern end of Newark Bay. Its third and final incarnation was a four-track vertical-lift design that opened in 1926, replacing a bascule bridge from 1904 which superseded the original swing ...
The bridge is similar in design to the Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge, and was similar in length to the Francis Scott Key Bridge at Baltimore's Outer Harbor. It runs parallel to the earlier built Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway's Upper Bay Bridge. This bridge is also known as "The Turnpike Bridge" and "The Turnpike Extension Bridge".
The $11 billion plan would expand Newark Bay Bridge to eight lanes and widen areas that lead to the Holland Tunnel. Residents cite pollution concerns NJ Turnpike Authority approves design money ...
Kearny & Newark: Jackson Street Bridge: Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard Harrison & Newark Ironbound: 5.0 Amtrak Dock Vertical Lift: Amtrak New Jersey Transit Port Authority Trans Hudson Newark line Harrison & Penn Station (Newark) Centre Street Bridge (defunct) New Jersey Railroad: Harrison & Newark: Bridge Street Bridge: County Route 508: Harrison ...
The current bridge, built from 1928–1930, [4] [15] [16] [17] is the last of the rail bridges across the bay or Kearny Point at its northern end. The CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge downstream and the Newark and New York Railroad Bridge upstream have been dismantled. [18]
For its mainline, the railroad constructed the Newark Bay Bridge to Elizabeth. Its Newark and New York Branch cut through Bergen Hill and crossed two bridges at Kearny Point. Both rights-of-way in Hudson County are now used by the Hudson Bergen Light Rail, one terminating at West Side Avenue and the other at 8th Street station in Bayonne.
The CNJ constructed a two-track bridge over lower Newark Bay in 1864, and upgraded it to a dual pair of four-track lift bridges known collectively as the CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge in 1926. This bridge offered a route and service through Bayonne and access to the Communipaw Terminal with ferry service to New York City. After the Conrail takeover ...
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