List of New Jersey railroad junctions

This is a List of New Jersey railroad junctions, present and past.

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|Aldene Junction

|CNJ, LV, CSAO, NJT,

|CNJ Main Line, LV Terminal Branch, NJT Raritan Valley Line

|Aldene

|Opened May 1, 1967. Currently in service for NJT's Raritan Valley trains. At the time of completion (and along with the Hunter Connection), it allowed CRRNJ traffic to terminate in Newark Penn Station, rather than its own Communipaw Terminal. This saved the floundering CNJ of the large operating costs of their terminal and ferry service. Reading Company's Crusader that once terminated in Communipaw also used the junction to terminate in Penn Station. A shuttle between Cranford and Bayonne, known as "the Scoot," operated until August 6, 1978, after which the right-of-way between Aldene and Bayonne was effectively abandoned. The CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge was demolished in stages after the US Coast Guard deemed it too great a hazard to maritime traffic. The junction and the Aldene-Elizabethport right-of-way is currently owned and controlled by CSAO.

|Alloway Junction|| P-RSL, WJ&S ||Salem Branch/Quinton Branch||Alloway ||Quinton Branch is abandoned

|Andover Junction||DL&W, L&HR||DL&W Sussex Branch/LHR main||Andover ||All lines now abandoned, DLW Sussex Branch abandoned September 30, 1966, trackage removed 1967–1977, LHR Mainline abandoned 1985, trackage removed 1989

|Anglesea Junction||PRR, WJ&SS, P-RSL||WJ&SS Cape May Branch||Burleigh ||Abandoned

|Atsion Junction||CNJ||CNJ Southern Div.||Atsion ||Branch to Atco abandoned

|Baker Junction||NJT, EL, DL&W||Morristown and Erie Main||Morristown ||Junction in Morristown, New Jersey between New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex line and the Morristown and Erie (M&E) main line. It has been fully operational for over 100 years and currently remains in service to provide connections for the shortline M&E to the national rail network.

|Barnegat City Junction||TRR, PRR||Long Beach Railroad||Ship Bottom ||All abandoned

|Bay Head Junction||CNJ, PRR, NJT||New York and Long Branch Railroad/North Jersey Coast Line, Long Branch and Barnegat Bay Railroad||Bay Head ||PRR abandoned Bay Head Jct.-Toms River portion of its Camden-Toms River-Bay Head Jct. Line in 1946 after the bridge over Barnaget Bay burned.

|Bergen Junction||ERIE, DLW, EL, NJT||DLW Boonton Branch (NJT Main Line), Erie Main Line (NJT Bergen County Line)||Jersey City ||Junction no longer exists. Was created to shift Erie's Main Line operations from Pavonia Terminal to Lackawanna Terminal. Was removed with creation of Secaucus Junction, which shifted NJT Bergen County Line junction with NJT Main Line north.

|Bound Brook Junction||LV, CNJ, RDG||Junction of former Lehigh Valley Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey main lines and Reading Railroad Port Reading Branch||Bound Brook ||A junction still exists, but is rarely used since the lines now serve passenger and freight traffic separately. The original Bound Brook Jct (where the Reading line to Philadelphia met the CNJ main line 1.6 miles west of Bound Brook station) was removed by Conrail years ago. The former LV main line is now operated by Conrail, CSX and Norfolk Southern and used for long distance and local freight services. The former CNJ main line is now NJ Transit's Raritan passenger line. A branch line called the Port Reading Secondary, formerly called the Port Reading Railroad (RDG), originates at Bound Brook Junction and crosses northern Middlesex County to connect with the Chemical Coast line in Eastern Middlesex County. The Port Reading Secondary has been refurbished and upgraded by its new owner CSX as a second route to Oak Island Terminal in Newark, NJ (via the Chemical Coast Line) and other points on the CSX system. The line now handles much more freight traffic than it handled in the later 20th Century under Conrail, including long haul double-stack container freight traffic.

|Bowentown Junction

|Branchville Junction||DLW||Sussex Branch||Lafayette ||Abandoned 1934, removed 1938

|Bridgeton Junction||P-RSL, CNJ||CNJ Southern Div./PRSL(WJ&SS)Bridgeton Branch||Bridgeton ||PRSL Bridgeton Branch is abandoned to north

|Brigantine Junction||ACRR, RDG, P-RSL||ACRR Main Line, Brigantine Branch||Pomona ||All abandoned

|Brills Junction||CNJ||Newark and New York Branch||Newark ||Newark to Jersey City line abandoned

|Brown's Mills Junction||PRR||Philadelphia and Long Branch Railroad, Brown's Mills Branch||Browns Mills ||Abandoned

|Burlington Junction

|Caldwell Junction||NYGL, ERIE, EL||NYGL, Caldwell Branch||Little Falls ||Caldwell Branch abandoned. NYGL line now NJT Montclair-Boonton Line, Caldwell Branch now West Essex Trail.

|Carteret Junction

|Chester Junction||DLW, CNJ||DLW Chester Branch, CNJ High Bridge Branch||Chester ||Abandoned, now a rail-trail

|Columbia Junction (Delaware Junction)||BRW, NYSW||Blairstown Railway/NYSW former Mainline and Delaware Branch||Columbia ||All abandoned

|Constable Hook Junction||LV||Constable Hook Branch||Bayone ||Active

|Cranford Junction||SIRT, B&O, ME, CNJ, NJT||North Shore Branch, Raritan Valley Line||Cranford ||Exists

|Croxton Junction||ERIE, EL, CSAO, CSX, NS||Erie Main Line, Northern Branch||Jersey City ||Active for freight. Junction at southern end of NS Croxton Yard. Passenger service ended after Erie operations were shifted from Pavonia Terminal to Lackawanna Terminal.

|Cutoff Junction||DL&W||Sussex Branch, Newton Branch||Lafayette || Abandoned

|D&R Junction||DLW, CNJ, NJT, ME||Dover & Rockaway RR, NJT||Dover ||Active freight branch used by ME off of NJ Transit Morristown Line

|Delair Junction||C&A, WJ&S, PRR, P-RSL, NJT, CSAO||C&A Mainline (NJT River Line/CSAO Bordentown Secondary), Morris Branch to Camden & Atlantic RR (NJT Atlantic City Line)||Pennsauken || Main lines exist, connecting Morris Branch abandoned to the north, new junction created to the south

|East Haddonfield Junction||WJ&S, PRR, P-RSL, NJT||Camden & Atlantic RR (NJT Atlantic City Line), Philadelphia, Marlton and Medford Railroad||Haddonfield ||Medford branch abandoned

|Eatontown Junction||CNJ||Southern Div. and Seashore Br. Longbranch Conn.||Eatontown || Southern Div. operated by CSX, Seashore Br. Longbranch Conn. abandoned

|Enterprise Junction

|Ferromonte Junction||CNJ, EL, DL&W||High Bridge (CNJ) and Chester (DL&W) Branches||Kenvil ||Ferromonte Junction is a railroad junction located in Kenvil, New Jersey. It was originally formed by the crossing at grade of the Central Railroad of New Jersey's High Bridge Branch (former Long Valley Railroad) with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Chester Branch (former Chester Railroad) and the connection to the Ferromonte Railroad (a CNJ subsidiary). When the Chester Branch was abandoned east of the junction, a switch was cut in to connect the western portion to the High Bridge Branch, and both lines are now operated by the Morristown and Erie Railway

|Fish House Junction||C&A, WJ&S, PRR, P-RSL, NJT, CSAO||C&A Mainline (NJT River Line/CSAO Bordentown Secondary), Camden & Atlantic RR (NJT Atlantic City Line)||Pennsauken || Mount Holly to Burlington abandoned

|Mount Hope Junction||CNJ||High Bridge Branch (Dover & Rockaway RR, Mount Hope Mineral RR)||Wharton ||All abandoned, along Wharton Rail Trail

|Musconetcong Junction||LV||LV Mainline, Musconetcong Branch||Bethlehem ||Branch abandoned

|National Junction

|Newark Junction

|Newton Junction||DL&W||Sussex Branch, Newton Branch||Newton ||

|Winslow Junction||WJ&SS ACRR CNJ P-RSL||CNJ Southern Div. WJ&SS Main Line ACRR Main Line/Cape May Branch||Winslow ||exists, CNJ Southern Div. abandoned 1978 to the north, ACRR AC Line is abandoned to the east

|Woodbine Junction (Mount Pleasant Junction)||P-RSL ACRR WJ&SS||WJ&SS Millville Branch ACRR Cape May Branch||Woodbine ||WJ&S Millville Branch is abandoned

|Woodbridge Junction (Long Branch Junction)||CNJ, PRR, CSAO, NJT||Chemical Coast Line, Perth Amboy Branch||Perth Amboy ||exists, Perth Amboy Branch is abandoned to the south

Abbreviations used in the table:

ACRR = Atlantic City Railroad
B&O = Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
BRW = Blairstown Railway
C&A = Camden and Amboy Railroad
CNJ = Central Railroad of New Jersey
CSAO = Conrail Shared Assets Operations
DLW = Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
ERIE = Erie Railroad
EL = Erie Lackawanna Railroad
LHR = Lehigh and Hudson River Railway
LV = Lehigh Valley Railroad
NJT = New Jersey Transit
LNE = Lehigh and New England Railroad
M&E = Morristown & Erie Railway
NS = Norfolk Southern
NYC = New York Central Railroad
NY&GL = New York and Greenwood Lake Railway
NYSW = New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
PRR = Pennsylvania Railroad
P-RSL = Pennsylvania–Reading Seashore Lines
RDG = Reading Railroad
SIRT = Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad
WJ&S = West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
W&DR = Williamstown and Delaware River Railroad

Line names may not be official, but serve to identify the line.

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