PASSENGER LINE ABANDONMENTS IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY 1930-1998

This listing contains the dates when the last passenger service was offered over the following line
segments.   Occasionally, service was ended and later reinstated.  This list indicates the final
abandonment.  

The area covered includes Middlesex, Mercer, Somerset, Union, Essex, Morris, Hunterdon,
Warren, Sussex, Hudson, Passaic and Bergen Counties.  

12/83 High Bridge - Phillipsburg (NJT, ex-CRNJ)
12/82 Bound Brook Jct - West Trenton (CR, ex-RDG)
9/78   Aldene - 33rd St., Bayonne (CR, ex-CRNJ)
1/70   Port Morris Jct. - Scranton (EL)   
4/67   Jersey City - 33rd St., Bayonne (CRNJ)
          Newark - Kearny (CRNJ)   
          Oak Island Jct. - Perth Amboy (CRNJ) (Elizabethport - Perth Amboy revived Summer,
                 1974 on weekends only)   
           Phillipsburg - Easton (CRNJ)
7/66   Rutherford Jct. - Carlton Hill  (EL)
          DB - Paterson Jct (Newark Branch) (EL)
          Great Notch - Essex Fells (Caldwell Branch) (EL)
          Mountain View - Midvale (Greenwood Lake Branch) (EL)
          West End - Sparkill (Northern Branch) (EL)
          Sussex Br. Jct - Branchville (Sussex Branch) (EL)
          Hackettstown - Washington (EL)
6/66   Susquehanna Transfer - Butler (NYSW)
10/63 Newark Jct - Mountain View (Old DLW Boonton Branch) (EL)
6/63   Trenton - Camden (PRR)
4/63   Carlton Hill - Paterson (EL)
5/62   Monmouth Jct. - Sea Girt (PRR)
11/61 Jersey City Terminal - Hudson (PRR)
2/61   Aldene - Easton, PA (LV)
10/60 Trenton - Phillipsburg  (PRR)
9/60?  Croxton - Erie Jersey City Terminal (NYSW over Erie Trackage)    
4/60    Elizabeth River - Warners (Sound Shore Branch) (CRNJ)
2/60?  Paterson - Paterson City (NYSW)
12/59  Weehauken - West Haverstraw (NYC)
10/59  South Amboy - Jamesburg (PRR)
4/59    Warners - Chrome (Sound Shore Branch) (CRNJ)
9/55?  Forest Hill - West Orange (Orange Branch) (Erie)
11/53?Trenton - West Trenton (RDG)
4/53   Somerville - Flemington (CRNJ)
4/52   Phillipsburg - Manunka Chunk (PRR)
4/52   Manunka Chunk - Stroudsburg (PRR over D,L&W Trackage)
3/52   Flemington Jct - Flemington (LV)

10/48? East Dover Jct. - Denville [Rockaway Loop] (D,L&W)  
5/48    Jersey City - Newark (LV)
5/48    Jersey City - West Side Ave (CRNJ)
4/48?  Washington - Manunka Chunk (DLW Old Main Line)
2/46   West Side Ave - Kearny (CRNJ)
7/41   Washington - Phillipsburg (DLW)
4/41?  Butler - Sussex (NYS&W)  Butler - Beaver Lake service reinstated on summer weekends
            in 1943 & 1944.
9/39?  Ringwood Jct - Ringwood (Erie)
11/38  Jamesburg - Bordentown (PRR)
4/38   South Amboy - New Brunswick (Raritan River)
12/37?  Sussex - Hanford (NYSW)
6/37    Manhattan Transfer - Park Place, Newark (PRR/H&M)
9/36?  Clinton - Pittston (LV)
10/35? Wanaque-Midvale - Sterling Forest (Erie)
10/34? Beaver Lake - Stroudsburg (NYSW)
9/34?  Perth Amboy - South Plainfield (LV)
9/32?  Chester Jct - Chester (DLW)
4/32   High Bridge - Rockaway (CRNJ)
9/31?  Augusta - Goshen (L&NE)
6/31?  Swartswood Jct - Augusta (L&NE)
5/31   Belivdere - Warwick (L&HR)
5/31   Easton - Phillipsburg (L&HR)
4/31?  Branchville Jct - Franklin (DLW)
4/31   Lambertville - Flemington (PRR)
4/30   New Brunswick - East Millstone (PRR)
4/30?  Washington - Hampton (DLW)

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