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The Central Railroad of New Jersey, also known as the Jersey Central, Jersey Central Lines or New Jersey Central (reporting mark CNJ), was a Class I railroad with origins in the 1830s. It was absorbed into Conrail in April 1976 along with several other prominent bankrupt railroads of the Northeastern United States .
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. South from Red Bank, the CNJ operated the following stations:
The former CNJ main line is now NJ Transit's Raritan passenger line. A branch line called the Port Reading Secondary, formerly called the Port Reading Railroad (RDG), originates at Bound Brook Junction and crosses northern Middlesex County to connect with the Chemical Coast line in Eastern Middlesex County.
The railroad's suburban trains served passengers to west and south, including the Jersey Shore. CNJ's long-distance service into Pennsylvania ran to Harrisburg, Scranton, and present-day Jim Thorpe, then known as Mauch Chunk. [15] The Reading Company used the terminal for its Crusader and Wall Street trains.
CNJ High Bridge Branch Detail of High Bridge Junctions in the Dover area Califon station Schematic map of the High Bridge Branch at its greatest extent. The High Bridge Branch is a branch line that was operated by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ).
Map of rail lines around Essex, Hudson, and Union counties in New Jersey. The grey CNJ line from Bayonne to Elizabeth was carried by the CNJ's Newark Bay Bridge. 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.
The station was on CNJ's main line and was also utilized by B&O and Reading Railway trains which terminated at CNJ's Jersey City terminal, where ferry service to New York was available. Baltimore and Ohio (routes west beyond Washington, DC): Capitol Limited, Cincinnatian, Columbian, Metropolitan Special, National Limited and others
Long Branch and Barnegat Bay Railroad: CNJ/ PRR: 1880 1881 New York and Long Branch Railroad: Long Branch and Sea Girt Railroad: CNJ/ PRR: 1875 1881 New York and Long Branch Railroad: Long Branch and Sea Shore Railroad: CNJ: 1863 1879 New Jersey Southern Railway: Long Dock Company: ERIE: 1856 1942 Erie Railroad: Longwood Valley Railroad: CNJ ...