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Hoboken to Sparkill, only 10 minutes longer than 1954 schedules because of some station closings. Although freight service on the line continued, service into New York state stopped in the late 1970s after the
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to the Erie Main Line, pass a switch which would be thrown, back up about two miles on the former route toward the Erie terminal to where the
Northern Branch joined the Erie Main, wait for another switch, and then proceed forward again into the Northern Branch. The move added 15 to 20 minutes to
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Northern Branch, the entire railroad north of Sparkill was abandoned in January and passenger service on the rest of the branch was eliminated in
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ran parallel to the
Northern Railroad. Joint stations were constructed between the railroads with platforms on each side. By the time the Susquehanna was leased by the Erie in 1898, the companies operated the parallel section as one multi-track railroad, with the Northern Railroad's tracks used
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Northern Railroad was mainly a commuter and local line, with significant freight business only near its southern end. Business dropped off in the 1930s, and in 1942 the company's property was sold off to its long-term lessor, the Erie. From that time it was the Northern Branch.
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late in 1868, about six months before the
Northern Railroad's formal lease to the Erie. At that time the company had six locomotives, 21 passenger and baggage cars, and 30 freight cars. Not long after, a nominally separate company, the Nyack and Northern Railroad, built from
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Northern at Sparkill, and from its opening in May 1870 Nyack became the northern terminal for most Northern Railroad trains. The Northern track was changed to standard gauge along with the rest of the Erie system in 1878.
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Northern Branch ran from Hoboken for only eight years. Operation was complicated by the lack of a direct connection. Trains leaving Hoboken had to run out over the new connection (1956) from the DL&W
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on the River Line east of the CSX North Bergen Yard, freight trains needed an alternate route to get to the CSX Albany
Division. Trains were re-routed via the Northern Running Track to access the
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of Newark Avenue (which the new connection overpasses). For these reasons, most freight trains instead used the River Line, passing through the
Palisades in tunnels twice.
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A map of the Northern Branch and surrounding railroads. The Northern Branch is the light blue line running almost straight from near the bottom of the map towards the top.
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The Northern Railroad of New Jersey was chartered in 1854. When it opened on May 28, 1859, it was the second railroad in modern Bergen County (following only the
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2731:"RAILWAY EXTENSION.; Opening of the Northern Railroad from Piermont to Nyack--The Excursion Yesterday--Scenes and Incidents -- Speech of James Fisk, Jr."
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Robert E. Mohowski (2003). The New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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to Grand View, and the Raymond G. Esposito Trail to Nyack. There are proposals to use the right-of-way north of
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in 1958. Two years later, the Pavonia Terminal was razed in 1961. The two companies merged in 1960 to form the
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New Jersey Transit plans to restore passenger service over a portion of the CSX line between North Bergen and
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Passenger service shifted Exchange Place to Pavonia in 1860s and from Pavonia to Lackawanna (Hoboken) in 1950s
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Seymour & Tower, Sneden WS, Cady AM, Robertson, Seibert & Shearman (1859).
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heading north as several names - the Joseph B. Clarke Rail-Trail to Piermont, the
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2772:"ERIE GETS JERSEY ROAD; Court Approves Reorganization Plan for Northern Railroad"
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and this part of the Northern Branch became major CSX rail corridor from
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proposal to restore passenger service on the line as an extension of the
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After the breakup of Conrail in 1999, the Northern Branch was divided.
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Northern Branch passes under the River Line at Babbitt, North Bergen
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retained the tracks from Marion Junction to the CSX yard in
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36:. For the Northern Branch of the Fujiwara noble family, see
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Just north of the NJ Transit overpasses, the line enters
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For five miles in Hudson County, Croxton to Granton, the
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for two and a half miles to the terminal later called
2942:"PATERSON PLANK ROAD PROJECT DEBUTS IN HUDSON COUNTY"
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and reverse direction, and the connection included a
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and reverse direction, and the connection included a
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of Newark Avenue, freight trains typically used the
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2283:New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
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2988:"The Northern Branch Exploring the Line"
2895:"COMMUTERS LOSE BID TO KEEP ERIE TRAINS"
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2963:Zurita, Anthony (March 6, 2019).
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2986:Bogarty, Lewis (2006–2009).
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2665:Hudson Connecting Railway
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2990:. www.wislew.com.
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2698:, retrieved
2693:
2684:
2638:
2600:
2592:Hudson River
2581:
2562:
2551:
2544:
2529:
2525:Truck US 1-9
2518:
2503:
2451:
2443:North Bergen
2436:
2421:
2393:Penn Central
2390:
2341:
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2313:
2288:
2280:
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2175:
2144:
2134:to form the
2118:, initially
2110:terminus in
2099:
2083:
2081:
1974:Hudson River
1972:
1866:
1624:Boonton Line
1618:
1549:
1409:
1335:North Bergen
1260:
1101:
1028:
942:
541:
436:
405:
29:
2484:Route guide
2377:Bergen Hill
2306:and later,
2255:broad gauge
2116:Jersey City
2088:Jersey City
334:Grand View
299:South Nyack
124:Track gauge
78:Jersey City
3008:Categories
2948:October 3,
2926:October 3,
2676:References
2611:rail trail
2417:River Line
2261:as far as
2182:NJ Transit
1554:connection
1454:Main line)
1310:New Durham
1279:Light Rail
874:Ridgefield
685:Cresskill
591:Northvale
542:State line
2641:Englewood
2607:Northvale
2573:Route 495
2385:NYS&W
2251:Manhattan
2225:, on the
2194:Englewood
2171:rail yard
2092:Northvale
1103:NYS&W
1030:NYS&W
898:Fairview
849:Morsemere
759:Englewood
478:Sparkill
406:Erie Pier
164:6 ft
159:Old gauge
118:Technical
83:Northvale
2870:Archived
2659:See also
2594:towards
2426:towards
2161:and the
2122:, later
1920: │
1818:Erie Cut
1551:DL&W
1497:DL&W
1033:mainline
661:Demarest
637:Closter
614:Norwood
438:NY&E
369:Piermont
147: in
66:Overview
3029:Conrail
2905:June 7,
2850:June 7,
2816:June 7,
2782:June 7,
2741:June 7,
2700:June 7,
2569:Route 3
2397:Conrail
2235:Croxton
2200:History
2140:Conrail
1680:M&E
1178:Babbitt
805:Leonia
709:Tenafly
509:Tappan
142:⁄
97:History
71:Termini
2758:
2571:, and
2506:Kearny
2428:Kearny
2383:, now
216:Legend
110:Closed
102:Opened
2647:from
2452:With
2275:Nyack
2180:is a
1901:
1285:
1266:
963:
937:
567:
548:
263:Nyack
235:Miles
87:Nyack
2950:2008
2928:2008
2907:2010
2852:2010
2818:2010
2784:2010
2756:ISBN
2743:2010
2702:2010
2523:and
2176:The
2082:The
1868:CSAO
1620:Erie
1492:MAIN
1452:Erie
869:10.2
824:11.5
801:12.5
754:15.0
729:16.0
704:17.0
681:18.2
656:19.2
633:20.2
610:21.9
587:22.7
474:24.7
364:25.8
330:27.1
294:28.5
258:29.0
105:1859
2472:.
2237:in
2165:'s
2153:at
2106:'s
2094:in
2090:to
1447:BCL
1415:NEC
1411:PRR
1405:NEC
1362:5.7
1330:6.1
1305:6.9
1173:8.5
944:CSX
894:9.3
3010::
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2897:,
2859:^
2842:,
2808:,
2774:,
2733:,
2709:^
2692:,
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2567:,
2434:.
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2052:/
1820:│
1408:│
1264:│
561:NJ
554:NY
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140:1
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135:8
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