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6 unusual facts about New Jersey Transit


Conrail Shared Assets Operations

The south track at the Delair Lift Bridge (part of the Delair Branch) is used by Conrail; the north track is used by New Jersey Transit's Atlantic City Line.

The North Jersey Shared Assets Area stretches from the North Bergen Yard in North Bergen, New Jersey south into Jersey City and Newark, and beyond to Manville and Trenton, much of which is operated over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and New Jersey Transit lines through trackage rights.

Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013

This funding will provide reasonable assistance and recovery to the four major affected transit agencies – New York's MTA, the Port Authority of NY/NJ, New Jersey Transit, and the City of New York DOT Ferries.

Millennium Transit Services

On July 27, 2005, the company announced its first major order: 68 transit and 221 suburban buses for New Jersey Transit.

New Jersey Transit

In mid-February 2008, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine withdrew the Monmouth Junction alignment from the MOM Plan.

Savin' Me

He then sees a young man talking on a cell phone about to get hit by a New Jersey Transit bus, and pulls him back just in the nick of time, and then walks away.


Chesapeake and Ohio 614

It was then used for a series of popular excursions between Hoboken, New Jersey and Port Jervis, New York in conjunction with New Jersey Transit (NJT) between 1996 and 1999.

East Newark, New Jersey

Newark Broad Street Station is the rail station closest to East Newark, with connections to New Jersey Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line and both branches of the Morris & Essex Lines.

One Washington Park

It is near highways and public transportation, notably Interstate 280 and Newark Broad Street Station, where there is service on New Jersey Transit Morris and Essex and Montclair-Boonton Lines (including Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station) and Newark Light Rail service to Newark Penn Station.

Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority

Its primary objective is to re-establish rail passenger service with New Jersey Transit between Scranton and Hoboken, New Jersey by way of the New Jersey Cut-Off, with connecting service into Manhattan, New York.

Princeton Branch

The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and New Jersey Transit are conducting studies to develop the Central New Jersey Route 1 Bus Rapid Transit Project.

PRR 4877

Thirteen GG1s were loaned to the New Jersey Department of Transportation in the 1980s, for use in what would eventually become New Jersey Transit.

Robbinsville Industrial Track

The line is serviced by train WPBU-20, which is based out of Conrail's Burlington Yard in Burlington, NJ and travels first on the New Jersey Transit's River Line which is called the Bordentown Secondary before it gets to line.

Rutgers School of Business – Camden

The Rutgers School of Business in Camden teaches accounting, management, organizational behavior, marketing, and related arts of the business world in Camden, New Jersey, United States, not too far from Adventure Aquarium, the River Line and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.

Sun National Bank Center

The arena is located next to, and served by, the Hamilton Avenue station on NJ Transit's River Line and New Jersey Route 129.

Walter Rand Transportation Center

Northbound service is available to the Trenton Transit Center with connections to New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor Line, SEPTA trains to Philadelphia, and Amtrak trains.


see also

ABB ALP-44

The ALP-44 based on the Rc6 model and designed specifically for New Jersey Transit as a variant of the EMD AEM-7 electric locomotive in use by Amtrak, MARC, and SEPTA.

Light rail in New Jersey

This line is operated under contract to New Jersey Transit by Southern New Jersey Rail Group, a Bombardier/Bechtel joint-venture.

New Jersey Transit Police Department

New Jersey Transit purchased belt clip-on radiation detectors as well as other explosive and radiological material detecting equipment to ensure that all of its regional police commands and officers throughout the state are equipped to detect explosives and radiological matter.