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The New Jersey Southern Railroad was a railroad that started in 1854. It would continue under this name until the 1870s as a separate company and the lines that it had constructed or run continued to be run in the New Jersey Southern name until the early 2000s.
JP Rail, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation doing business as SRNJ, [2] operates tracks in the Winslow area that originally belonged to the New Jersey Southern Railroad, and which were later acquired by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (in the 1880s) and subsequently Conrail (1976) and the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT; 1984). [3]
Pennsylvania and New England Railroad: 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
Famous Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman spent time in South Jersey during her time of helping slaves escape to freedom.
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.
The Tuckerton Railroad (reporting mark TRR) was a railroad that operated in New Jersey from 1871 to 1936. The Southern New Jersey Railroad operated part of the line from 1937 to 1940. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Southern Secondary is a rail line in New Jersey, operated by Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) from South Amboy to Red Bank, and the Delaware and Raritan River Railroad (DRR), a subsidiary of Chesapeake and Delaware, LLC, between Red Bank and Lakewood. The entire active portion of the line is owned by NJ Transit.
In 1917, the CNJ took over the New Jersey Southern Railroad. It was along this trackage that the CNJ operated its most famous train, The Blue Comet , which ran from Jersey City to Winslow Junction, and then along The Reading Co's Atlantic City Railroad trackage to Atlantic City .