The
North Jersey Shared Assets Area stretches from the
North Bergen Yard in
North Bergen, New Jersey south into
Jersey City and
Newark, and beyond to
Manville (
Port Reading Junction) and
Trenton, much of which is operated over
Amtrak's
Northeast Corridor and
New Jersey Transit lines through
trackage rights. Primary connections are to CSX's
River Subdivision north to
Albany, New York at North Bergen, NS's
Southern Tier Line northwest to
Buffalo, New York at
Croxton Yard in Jersey City, NS's
Lehigh Line west to
Allentown, Pennsylvania and CSX's
Trenton Subdivision southwest to
Philadelphia at Manville, and the Conrail
South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Area at Trenton.
Oak Island Yard in
Newark is the principal yard for the region with smaller ones at Bayonne,
Greenville (Jersey City),
Linden, Manville,
Metuchen, Newark, Old Bridge, and Port Reading in Woodbridge. •
Center Street Branch, Kearny Meadows, "P&HL",
Centre Street Bridge (demolished) •
Passaic and Harsimus Line "P&HL", formerly Northeast Corridor at Waverly Yard In Newark, New Jersey, now
Oak Island Yard to Jersey City •
Northern Running Track "NRTB", from 'CP Hack' and interchange with Passaic and Harsimus Line with connections to
Marion Junction, New Jersey, Croxton Yard, interchange with New York Susquehanna & Western at 'CP West Croxton' and ending at 'CP-1' of
CSX North Bergen Yard •
National Docks Branch "NATB", Northern Running Track at Bergen Junction, New Jersey to
Upper Bay Bridge to
Oak Island Yard •
Garden State Secondary formerly
Chemical Coast Line "COAS",
Oak Island Yard to
North Jersey Coast Line at
Perth Amboy •
Lehigh Line "LEHL", National Docks Branch, Bayonne to CSX
Trenton Subdivision and NS
Lehigh Line at
Manville • Perth Amboy Running Track, comes off Garden State Secondary to service industries in
Perth Amboy, New Jersey. •
Amboy Secondary "AMBS" (
Amboy Branch and
Jamesburg Branch), from William to Midway
Amtrak. Connects to
NJ Transit North Jersey Coast Line via the Essay and Church Running Tracks in
South Amboy, New Jersey. •
Sayreville Running Track, Gillespie Running Track and Phoenix Branch •
Southern Secondary "SOUS", trackage rights over NJ Transit's
North Jersey Coast Line from South Amboy to
Red Bank, New Jersey, to an interchange with the
Delaware and Raritan River Railroad located in Red Bank. •
Port Reading Secondary "MANS", a line that runs from
Port Reading Junction and Yard to Bound Brook where it connects with the Lehigh Line - recently upgraded and may lose its 'secondary' status. •
Staten Island Railroad "NOSL", from 'CP Ralph' in Elizabeth, NJ over the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge to Arlington Yard in Staten Island, NY including the
Travis Industrial Track, which runs from Arlington Yard to a New York Department of Sanitation Waste Transfer Facility at Fresh Kills. •
Hightstown Industrial Track, an Industrial Track that runs from a junction with the Amboy Secondary in Jamesburg, NJ to
Cranbury, NJ. • Bonhamtown Branch, runs from NEC south of
Metuchen station to
Raritan Center, interchanges with Raritan Central Railway at Metuchen Yard. ==South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Area==