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The Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, also known as Communipaw Terminal and Jersey City Terminal, was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's waterfront passenger terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey. The terminal was built in 1889, replacing an earlier one that had been in use since 1864.
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.
At Elizabethport, the Jersey Central's Perth Amboy & Elizabethport Branch split from the Main Line and ran as far as South Amboy, where it became the New York and Long Branch Railroad. The NY&LB ran as far as Bay Head Junction, NJ and was owned and operated jointly by the CNJ and PRR.
The Newark and New York Branch was a railway line that ran between Downtown Newark and the Communipaw Terminal at the mouth of the North River (Hudson River) in Jersey City, bridging the Hackensack River and Passaic River just north of their mouths at the Newark Bay in northeastern New Jersey. The Central Railroad of New Jersey operated it from ...
Central Railroad of New Jersey: Sound Shore Railroad: CNJ: 1894 1917 Central Railroad of New Jersey: South Branch Railroad: CNJ: 1861 1888 Central Railroad of New Jersey: South Easton and Phillipsburg Railroad: L&HR: 1889 1912 Lehigh and Hudson River Railway: South Jersey Railroad: PRSL 1893 1898 Seacoast Railroad: South Mountain and Boston ...
June: The New Jersey Junction Railroad (NYC) opens for passengers. [8] October: The Lehigh Valley Railroad settles a long legal battle with the Central Railroad of New Jersey, opening the way to build a Jersey City terminal on land originally purchased in 1872 for the New Jersey West Line Railroad. [9]
Through service to Jersey City ended on the morning of February 3, 1946, when the collier Jaeger Seam struck and damaged the Hackensack Drawbridge, which carried the Newark and New York Branch across the Hackensack River. The Jersey Central instituted shuttle service between Newark and Kearny, and west from Jersey City to West Side Avenue. [11]
On December 18, 1910, the Central Railroad of New Jersey passenger station caught fire at 4:30 in the morning and was burned to the ground. Determined to be of unknown origin (thought to be an overheated radiator), the fire claimed the passenger station, destroying two passenger locomotives and scorching the paint of three others for an estimated loss of $50,000 (over $1.5 million as of 2024)