New Jersey Southern Railroad
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The New Jersery Southern Railroad (NJS) began as the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad (R&DB), in March of 1854. The R&DB was chartered to construct a railroad from the Raritan Bay to Cape Island, near the outlet of the Delaware Bay.
Construction began in 1858, with the early tracks connecting Port Monmouth to Lakewood Township and Whitings (Manchester Township) in 1860, and later to Toms River in 1866.
The NJS also served the resort areas along the New Jersey shore. It was part of the Sandy Hook Route, where New York City passengers traveling to the shore could board a steamboat at West 42nd Street on the Hudson River and arrive at Atlantic Highlands an hour later at a waiting train.
In 1879, the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) purchased the New Jersey Southern Railroad, becoming its Southern Division. The CNJ railroad is now the North Jersey Coast Line of New Jersey Transit.
Today, the North Jersey Coast Line bypasses the Raritan Bay towns just South of South Amboy. Where the railroad used to spur off at Keyport and run through Union Beach to Keansburg, is now part of a walking path.
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- Railroad of New Jersey, Fragments of the Past in the Garden State. By Lorett Treese.
