Gladstone Branch
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The Gladstone Branch is a branch of New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines. The Gladstone Branch primarily serves commuter trains; freight service is very limited. Out of 23 inbound and 26 outbound daily weekday trains, 2 inbound and 2 outbound trains (about 8%) use the Kearny Connection (opened June 10, 1996) to Secaucus Junction and New York Penn Station; the rest go to Hoboken Terminal. Passengers can transfer at Newark Broad Street or Summit to reach the other destination if necessary. The part of the line west of Summit is single-tracked with passing sidings at Murray Hill, Stirling, and west of Far Hills and operates in peak-direction only on weekday peak hours, except for some service operating reverse-peak from Murray Hill in the PM peak. On weekends, the line operates Gladstone-Hoboken service every other hour, with Gladstone-Summit service operating during alternating hours to provide hourly service along the branch.
Peak trains arrive at Hoboken on weekdays between 7:00 am and 9:18 am; the two trains to New York arrive on weekdays in Penn Station at 7:26 am and 7:49 am. Peak trains leave Hoboken between 4:32 pm and 7:00 pm; the trains leaving New York do so on weekdays at 5:18 pm and 5:50 pm. [1]
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[edit] History
The only part of the New Jersey West Line Railroad that was completed was from Summit west to Bernardsville. The New Jersey West Line Railroad was dissolved in 1878 and the assets were sold off. The Summit to Bernardsville line was then purchased by the Passaic and Delaware Railroad. The Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) leased the line on November 1, 1882 as a branch of the Morris and Essex. The Passaic and Delaware Extension Railroad was chartered in 1890 and opened later that year, extending the line to its current terminus in Gladstone, New Jersey.
- See also: New Jersey West Line Railroad
[edit] Rolling stock
Most service is provided by Budd Arrow III electric cars built in 1978. The two weekday round trips to New York use Comet trains powered by ALP-44 or ALP-46 locomotives.
[edit] Station listing
| Milepost | City | Station | Oper | Connections |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Hoboken | Hoboken Terminal | NJT | PATH and New York Waterways to New York City, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to local points, NJT 22, 23, 64, 68, 85, 87, 89, 126 buses |
| Meadows Maintenance Complex | NJT | Main Overhaul and Maintenance Shop, employee stop | ||
| Midtown Direct trains join | ||||
| 5 | Kearny | Kearny Junction | Midtown Direct trains from New York Penn Station and Secaucus Junction join the line via the Kearny Connection | |
| 7.8 | Newark | Newark Broad Street | NJT | Newark Light Rail service, NJT 11, 13, 27, 28, 29, 39, 41, 43, 72, 76, 78, 108 buses |
| Roseville Avenue | NJT Montclair-Boonton Line splits, abandoned station | |||
| East Orange | Grove Street | NJT | abandoned | |
| 10 | East Orange | NJT | NJT 21, 71, 73, 79, 94, 97 buses | |
| 10.6 | Brick Church | NJT | NJT 21, 71, 73, 79, 94 buses | |
| 11.5 | Orange | Orange | NJT | NJT 21, 41, 71, 73, 79, 92 buses |
| 12.2 | Highland Avenue | NJT | NJT 92 bus | |
| 13.1 | South Orange | Mountain Station | NJT | NJT 92 bus |
| 13.9 | South Orange | NJT | NJT 92, 107 buses | |
| 15.2 | Maplewood | Maplewood | NJT | |
| 16.8 | Millburn | Millburn | NJT | NJT 70 bus |
| 17.8 | Short Hills | NJT | ||
| 20.1 | Summit | Summit | NJT | Branches off NJT Morristown Line, NJT 70 bus, WHEELS 986 bus |
| 21.8 | New Providence | New Providence | NJT | WHEELS 986 bus |
| 23.4 | Murray Hill | NJT | WHEELS 986 bus | |
| 25.8 | Berkeley Heights | Berkeley Heights | NJT | |
| 27.1 | Long Hill | Gillette | NJT | |
| 28.5 | Stirling | NJT | ||
| 30.1 | Millington | NJT | ||
| 31.8 | Bernards | Lyons | NJT | |
| 33.6 | Basking Ridge | NJT | ||
| 34.6 | Bernardsville | Bernardsville | NJT | |
| 39.0 | Far Hills | Far Hills | NJT | |
| 41.3 | Peapack-Gladstone | Peapack | NJT | |
| 42.3 | Gladstone | NJT | ||
| Midtown Direct service | ||||
| 0 | New York City | New York Penn Station | NJT | Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak, New York City Subway, New York City Bus, MTA Bus |
| Secaucus | Secaucus Junction | NJT | All NJT Rail lines except the Atlantic City Line and Raritan Valley Line, NJT 2, 129, 772 buses | |
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