List of New Jersey Railroads

Railroad Name Start Date End Date
Alloway and Quinton Railroad 1891 1896
Anglesea Railroad 1882 1888
Arlington Railroad 1887 1942
Atlantic City Railroad 1889 1933
Atlantic Highlands Railroad 1889 1890
Atlantic Port Railway 1920 Unknown
Baltimore and New York Railway 1888 1944
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 1827 1987
Barnegat Railroad 1866 1923
Bay Creek Railway 1894 1898
Bay Shore Connecting Railroad 1904 1976
Belvidere Delaware Railroad 1836 1958
Bergen County Railroad 1880 1942
Bergen Neck Railway 1885 1891
Bergen and Dundee Railroad 1885 1942
Blairstown Railway 1876 1883
Bloomfield and Orange Horse Car Railway 1868 1870
Bound Brook and Easton Railroad 1872 1872
Bridgeton and Port Norris Railroad 1866 1878
Brigantine Beach Railroad 1889 1896
Buena Vista Railroad 1880 1917
Burlington County Railroad 1863 1866
Burlington and Mount Holly Railroad and Transportation Company 1848 1863
Caldwell Railway 1890 1892
Camden County Railroad 1889 1901
Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company 1830 1872
Camden and Atlantic Railroad 1852 1896
Camden and Burlington County Railroad 1866 1915
Camden and Burlington County Railway 1915 1958
Camden and Woodbury Railroad and Transportation Company 1836 1840
Camden, Gloucester and Mount Ephraim Railway 1873 1889
Camden, Moorestown, Hainesport and Mount Holly Horse Car Railroad 1859 1866
Cape May Railroad 1894 1894
Cape May and Millville Railroad 1863 1879
Carteret Extension Railroad 1889 1917
Carteret and Sewaren Railroad 1890 1917
Central Railroad of New Jersey 1849 1976
Charlottesburgh and Green Lake Railroad 1876 1888
Chelsea Branch Railroad 1846 1896
Chester Railroad 1867 1945
Columbus and Kinkora Railroad 1866 1870
Columbus, Kinkora and Springfield Railroad 1870 1901
Constable's Hook Railroad 1882 1887
Cumberland and Maurice River Extension Railroad 1887 1917
Cumberland and Maurice River Railroad 1875 1917
Delaware River Railroad 1879 1900
Delaware River Railroad and Bridge Company 1896 1954
Delaware Shore Railroad 1873 1879
Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad 1874 1976
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad 1853 1960
Docks Connecting Railway 1886 1942
Dover and Rockaway Railroad 1880 1976
East Trenton Railroad 1884 1955
Easton and Amboy Railroad 1872 1903
Edgewater Railway 1889 1891
Edgewater and Fort Lee Railroad 1901 1907
Elizabeth Extension Railroad 1889 1917
Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad 1831 1849
Enterprise Railroad 1865 1896
Erie Railroad 1895 1960
Erie Railway 1861 1878
Erie Terminals Railroad 1907 1942
Farmingdale and Squan Village Railroad 1867 1879
Ferro Monte Railroad 1869 Unknown
Flemington Railroad and Transportation Company 1849 1885
Freehold and Atlantic Highlands Railroad 1890 1917
Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad 1851 1958
Freehold and Keyport Railroad 1890 1890
Freehold and New York Railroad 1888 1890
Freehold and New York Railway 1877 1888
Glassboro Railroad 1883 1889
Green Pond Railroad 1874 1876
Greenville and Hudson Railway 1895 1903
Hackensack Railroad 1878 1886
Hackensack and Lodi Railroad 1896 1953
Hackensack and New York Extension Railroad 1869 1873
Hackensack and New York Railroad 1856 1873
Harrison and East Newark Connecting Railroad 1898 1954
Hibernia Branch Railroad 1888 1905
Hibernia Mine Railroad 1863 1930
Hibernia Underground Railroad 1879 Unknown
High Bridge Railroad 1872 1887
Hoboken Land and Improvement Company 1860 1886
Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad 1902 1954
Hoboken Railroad, Warehouse and Steamship Connecting Company 1895 1978
Hopatcong Railroad 1889 1943
Hudson Connecting Railway 1869 1880
Hudson Railroad and Transportation Company 1907 Unknown
Hudson River Railroad and Terminal Company 1892 1893
Irvington Railroad 1904 1906
Island Heights Railroad 1883 1885
Jersey City Belt Line Railway 1890 1913
Jersey City Terminal Railway 1888 1891
Jersey City and Albany Railroad 1873 1877
Jersey City and Albany Railway 1878 1881
Jersey City and Western Railway 1889 1891
Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway 1889 1891
Kaighn's Point Terminal Railroad 1888 1889
Keyport Railroad 1888 1890
Kill von Kull Railway 1885 1898
Kinkora and New Lisbon Railroad 1903 1915
Lackawanna Railroad of New Jersey 1908 1945
Lafayette Railroad 1889 1917
Lake Hopatcong Railroad 1882 1887
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company 1837 1978
Lehigh Valley Railroad 1853 1976
Lehigh Valley Railroad of New Jersey 1903 1949
Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway 1891 1903
Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad 1881 1882
Lehigh and Hudson River Railway 1882 1976
Lehigh and New England Railroad 1895 1961
Lodi Branch Railroad 1870 1953
Long Beach Railroad 1883 1894
Long Branch and Barnegat Bay Railroad 1880 1881
Long Branch and Sea Girt Railroad 1875 1881
Long Branch and Sea Shore Railroad 1863 1879
Long Dock Company 1856 1942
Longwood Valley Railroad 1867 1887
Lucaston Railroad 1892 Unknown
Macopin Railroad 1886 1926
Manahawkin and Long Beach Transportation Company 1893 1909
Manchester and Barnegat Bay Railway Unknown 1869
Manufacturers' Extension Railroad 1889 1917
Manufacturers' Railroad 1873 1907
Martins Creek Railroad 1885 1896
Maurice River Railroad 1887 1887
May's Landing and Egg Harbor City Railroad 1871 1882
Mercer and Somerset Railway 1870 1879
Middle Brook Railroad 1899 1917
Middle Valley Railroad 1897 1917
Middlesex Railway 1888 1903
Midland Connecting Railway 1881 1881
Midland Railroad of New Jersey 1880 1881
Midland Terminal and Ferry Company 1873 1883
Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad 1837 1915
Millville and Glassboro Railroad 1859 1868
Mine Hill Railroad 1891 1912
Monmouth County Agricultural Railroad 1867 1877
Monmouth Park Railroad 1878 1889
Montclair Railway 1867 1875
Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railway 1875 1878
Morris County Connecting Railroad 1901 1905
Morris County Railroad 1885 1905
Morris and Essex Extension Railroad 1889 1947
Morris and Essex Railroad 1835 1945
Morristown and Erie Railroad 1903 1978
Mount Holly, Lumberton and Medford Railroad 1866 1915
Mount Hope Mineral Railroad 1866 1976
National Docks Railway 1879 1905
National Docks and New Jersey Junction Connecting Railway 1888 1898
Navesink Railroad 1891 1917
New Egypt and Farmingdale Railroad 1869 1881
New Jersey Junction Railroad 1886 1952
New Jersey Midland Railway 1870 1880
New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company 1832 1872
New Jersey Shore Line Railroad 1886 1914
New Jersey Southern Railroad 1870 1879
New Jersey Southern Railway 1879 1917
New Jersey Terminal Railroad 1901 1917
New Jersey West Line Railroad 1870 1878
New Jersey Western Railroad 1867 1870
New Jersey and New York Extension Railroad 1886 1936
New Jersey and New York Railroad 1874 1967
New Jersey and New York Railway 1873 1960
New Jersey and Pennsylvania Railroad 1904 1915
New Jersey, Hudson and Delaware Railroad 1832 1870
New Orange Four Junction Railroad 1901 1905
New York Bay Railroad 1890 1956
New York Central Railroad 1853 1968
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad 1869 1914
New York and Atlantic Highlands Railroad 1883 1889
New York and Bull's Ferry Railroad 1861 1862
New York and Erie Railroad 1832 1861
New York and Fort Lee Railroad 1862 1952
New York and Greenwood Lake Railway 1878 1943
New York and Long Branch Extension Railroad 1880 1881
New York and Long Branch Railroad 1868 1976
New York and New Orange Railroad 1897 1900
New York, Lake Erie and Western Docks and Improvement Company 1881 1942
New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad 1878 1895
New York, Ontario and Western Railway 1880 1957
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad 1881 1980
New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway 1880 1885
Newark Bay Railway 1890 1913
Newark Railway 1890 1891
Newark and Bloomfield Railroad 1852 1945
Newark and Hudson Railroad 1870 1942
Newark and New York Railroad 1866 1873
Newark and Passaic Railway 1889 1891
Newark and Roselle Railway 1889 1891
North Jersey Railroad 1881 1881
North River Railroad 1881 1881
Northern Railroad of New Jersey 1854 1943
Ocean City Railroad 1884 1901
Ogden Mine Railroad 1864 1941
Passaic River Extension Railroad 1890 1917
Passaic Valley and Peapack Railroad 1865 1870
Passaic and Delaware Extension Railroad 1890 1947
Passaic and Delaware Railroad 1878 1945
Passaic and New York Railroad 1885 1953
Paterson Extension Railroad 1881 1881
Paterson and Hudson River Railroad 1831 1953
Paterson and Newark Railroad 1864 1871
Paterson and Ramapo Railroad 1841 1946
Paterson, Newark and New York Railroad 1872 1942
Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad 1864 1915
Pemberton and New York Railroad 1870 1879
Pemberton and Sea Shore Railroad 1879 1883
Penhorn Creek Railroad 1897 1942
Pennsylvania Railroad 1846 1968
Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad 1907 1976
Pennsylvania and Atlantic Railroad 1915 1976
Pennsylvania and New England Railroad 1880 1882
Pennsylvania and New Jersey Railroad 1894 1917
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad 1902 1907
Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad 1887 1895
Pennsylvania, Slatington and New England Railroad 1882 1887
Pequest and Wallkill Railroad 1866 1881
Perth Amboy and Bound Brook Railroad 1858 1872
Perth Amboy and Elizabethport Railroad 1869 1873
Perth Amboy and Long Branch Railroad 1890 1891
Perth Amboy and Raritan Railway 1890 1903
Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Railroad 1855 1958
Petersburg and Sea Isle Railroad 1893 1893
Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad 1883 1889
Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway 1876 1883
Philadelphia and Beach Haven Railroad 1894 1935
Philadelphia and Brigantine Railroad 1896 1903
Philadelphia and Long Branch Railroad 1883 1915
Philadelphia and Long Branch Railway 1880 1883
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad 1833 1896
Philadelphia and Reading Railway 1896 1924
Philadelphia and Sea Shore Railway 1889 1892
Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad 1832 1976
Philadelphia, Marlton and Medford Railroad 1880 1896
Pittstown Branch Railway 1890 1903
Pleasantville and Ocean City Railroad 1880 1892
Pochuck Railroad 1897 1944
Pohatcong Railroad 1907 Unknown
Port Oram Railroad 1886 1905
Port Reading Railroad 1890 1976
Rahway Valley Company 1909 1992
Rahway Valley Railroad 1904 1992
Raritan North Shore Railroad 1890 1917
Raritan River Railroad 1888 1980
Raritan Terminal and Transportation Company 1898 Unknown
Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad 1854 1870
Richland and Petersburg Railroad 1892 1893
Ridgefield Park Railroad 1867 1873
Rockaway River and Montville Railroad 1899 1917
Rockaway Valley Extension Railroad 1889 1890
Rockaway Valley Manufacturing and Construction Company 1890 1895
Rockaway Valley Mendham Extension Railroad 1890 1895
Rockaway Valley Morristown Extension Railroad 1892 1895
Rockaway Valley Peapack Extension Railroad 1889 1890
Rockaway Valley Railroad 1888 1895
Rockaway Valley Railway 1895 1904
Rocky Hill Railroad and Transportation Company 1853 1958
Roseland Railway 1891 1897
Roselle and South Plainfield Railway 1885 1891
Salem Branch Railroad 1886 1887
Salem Railroad 1856 1902
Seacoast Railroad 1898 1901
Somerville and Easton Railroad 1847 1849
Sound Shore Railroad 1894 1917
South Branch Railroad 1861 1888
South Easton and Phillipsburg Railroad 1889 1912
South Jersey Railroad 1893 1898
South Mountain and Boston Railroad 1873 1880
Speedwell Lake Railroad Unknown 1904
Squankum and Freehold Marl Company 1868 1879
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad 1880 1899
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway 1899 1971
Stone Harbor Railroad 1912 1936
Stone Harbor Terminal Railroad 1912 1921
Sussex Mine Railroad 1848 1853
Sussex Railroad 1853 1945
Sussex Valley Railroad 1867 1870
Swedesboro Railroad 1866 1887
Toms River Railroad 1881 1917
Toms River and Barnegat Railroad 1893 1917
Toms River and Waretown Railroad 1870 1873
Trenton Delaware Bridge Company 1835 1903
Tuckahoe and Cape May Railway 1890 1894
Tuckerton Railroad 1869 1936
Union Transportation Company 1888 1976
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company 1872 1976
Vincentown Branch of Burlington County Railroad 1861 1915
Vineland Branch Railroad 1909 1917
Vineland Railroad 1877 1917
Vineland Railway 1867 1873
Warren Railroad 1851 1945
Warwick Valley Railroad 1860 1882
Watchung Railway 1870 1893
Waverly and New York Bay Railroad 1889 1890
Waverly and Passaic Railroad 1889 1890
Wawayanda Railroad 1879 1880
Weehawken Transportation Company 1871 1873
West End Railroad 1878 1917
West Jersey Railroad 1853 1896
West Jersey Terminal Railroad 1887 1887
West Jersey and Atlantic Railroad 1879 1896
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad 1896 1976
West Shore Railroad 1885 1952
West Shore and Ontario Terminal Company 1883 1901
West Side Connecting Railroad 1889 1917
Wharton and Northern Railroad 1905 1976
Whippany River Railroad 1895 1903
Whippany and Passaic River Railroad 1902 1903
Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad 1910 1935
Williamstown Railroad 1861 1883
Williamstown and Delaware River Railroad 1883 1889
Winslow and Richland Railroad 1892 1893
Woodstown and Swedesboro Railroad 1871 1887