West Trenton Line (NJ Transit)

This article is about the proposed New Jersey Transit line. For the SEPTA Regional Rail line, see West Trenton Line (SEPTA).

West Trenton Line

Legend

to Newark Penn Station

I-95 Hopewell

The West Trenton Line is a planned New Jersey Transit (NJT) commuter rail service that would be operated mostly along the CSX Transportation Trenton Subdivision, connecting West Trenton Station in Ewing, New Jersey with Newark Penn Station in Newark, New Jersey. The route would connect with the Raritan Valley Line at Bridgewater and the West Trenton SEPTA Line at West Trenton. As of 2007, NJT's estimate of the cost of creating a passenger line to West Trenton was $219 million.^[1] To date, no funding for the proposal has been secured.^[1]

Historically, this was a property of the Reading Company. This line carried the Reading's Crusader and Wall Street trains, which originally operated as through service from Reading Terminal in Philadelphia to Jersey City. The Baltimore and Ohio's Royal Blue to Washington, D.C. and other trains to Chicago or St. Louis traveled on this line as well. Conrail then operated the service under contract to SEPTA and NJT using Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDC) until 1981. NJT then continued operating the RDCs until November 1982, when service ended due to dwindling ridership.

Presently, the route is owned by CSX Transportation; all station platforms have been removed except at West Trenton, which is currently used by the SEPTA West Trenton Line, a commuter service to Philadelphia which also operates on the Trenton Subdivision.

Proposed stations

West Trenton (Connection with SEPTA West Trenton Line service)
I-95 / Hopewell (Township)
Hopewell (Borough)
Belle Mead
Hillsborough
Bridgewater

The Belle Mead Station originally used by the Reading Railroad

Trains would continue along the Raritan Valley Line from Bridgewater to Newark Penn Station.

References

1 2 "West Trenton Line". NJ Transit. Retrieved 2011-11-12.

External links

Proposed alignment map PDF

NJ Transit Rail Operations

Hoboken Division	Bergen County Line Main Line Meadowlands Rail Line Montclair-Boonton Line Morris & Essex Lines (Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch) Pascack Valley Line

Newark Division	Atlantic City Line North Jersey Coast Line Northeast Corridor Line Princeton Branch Raritan Valley Line

Connections	Aldene Connection Lehigh Line Connection Kearny Connection Montclair Connection Secaucus Junction Waterfront Connection

Rolling stock	Current: EMD GP40PH-2 ALP-46 ALP-45DP PL42AC Comet coaches Comet V MultiLevel coaches Arrow multiple units

Proposed lines	Lackawanna Cut-Off MOM Northern Branch Passaic–Bergen Rail Line West Trenton Line

Other topics	Access to the Region's Core Atlantic City Express Service Gateway Project List of stations Historic stations

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