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NORTHERN
NEW JERSEY
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New Jersey . USA |
NORTHERN
NEW JERSEY
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The New Jersey side of the New York metropolitan area (west of the Hudson River) does not have as much rail infrastructure as its more famous neighbor, New York City, but still features various systems including the Newark Light Rail, PATH, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, and New Jersey Transit Commuter Rail. |
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NEWARK LIGHT RAIL | |
![]() A new segment, referred to as Newark Light Rail, from Newark-Penn Station to Newark-Broad Street Station opened in July 2006. This segment is partly underground and then continues at-grade. Eventually, the line is planned to connect to Newark-Liberty International Airport, south of the city. 18
Nov 1929: construction begins
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Oct 1934: Warren St - Heller Parkway (now closed)
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Jun 1937: Warren St - Penn Station
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1940: Heller Parkway - Franklin Ave (now Branch Brook Park) |
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PATH | |
History 26
Feb 1908: Service begins Hoboken - 6th Ave/19th St
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Jun 1908: 19th St - 23rd St
19 July 1909: Hudson Terminal [WTC] - Exchange Place 02
Aug 1909: Exchange Place - Hoboken
06 Sept 1910: Exchange Place - Grove St 10 Nov 1910: 23rd St - 33rd St 01
Oct 1911: Grove St - Manhattan Transfer
26 Nov 1911: Manhattan Transfer - Newark (Park Place) 1962: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey renames the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad 'PATH' 11
Sept 2001: Service suspended from Grove St to World Trade
Center
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Nov 2003: Service reopened to a temporary World Trade Center station
03 Mar 2016: new World Trade Center station opened |
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HUDSON-BERGEN LIGHT RAIL |
History 18
Nov 2000: Exchange Place - Newport
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Sept 2002: Newport - Hoboken
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Nov 2003: 34th St - 22nd St
07 Sept 2004: Hoboken - Lincoln Harbor 29 Oct 2005: Lincoln Harbor - Port Imperial Ferry (weekends only) 25 Feb 2006: Lincoln Harbor - Tonnelle Ave 31 Jan 2011: 22nd St - 8th St (Bayonne)
Projects Northern extension to Tenafly planned (Project Website) |
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Links
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New Jersey Transit has information on the Subway, the Light Rail, and the Commuter Rail Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - operates PATH nycsubway.org has information on these various systems Hudson Tubes (PATH) by Bob Klapouchy SubwayNut - many photos of rail transit around New York Allen Morrison's photos of the Broad Street Station Line PATH at Wikipedia Newark Light Rail at Wikipedia Hudson-Bergen Light Rail at Wikipedia |
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