Gladstone Branch

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The Gladstone Branch is a historic and rather scenic branch of New Jersey Transit's Morristown Line. Out of 23 inbound and 26 outbound daily weekday trains, 2 inbound and 2 outbound trains (about 8%) use the Kearny Connection (opened June 10, 1996) to Secaucus Junction and New York Penn Station; the rest go to Hoboken Terminal. Passengers can transfer at Newark Broad Street or Summit to reach the other destination if necessary. The part of the line west of Summit is single-tracked with passing sidings and operates in peak-direction on weekday peak hours. On weekends (as of August 23, 2006), the line operates Gladstone-Hoboken service every two hours, usually consisting of three Arrow III MU cars with a connection available to Midtown Direct service.

1 History
2 Freight service
3 Station listing
- 3.1 External links

[edit] History

The only part of the New Jersey West Line Railroad that was completed was from Summit west to Bernardsville. The New Jersey West Line Railroad was dissolved in 1878 and the assets were sold off. The Summit to Bernardsville line was purchased by the Passaic and Delaware Railroad and renamed to the same old name . The Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) leased the line on November 1, 1882 as a branch of the Morris and Essex. The Passaic and Delaware Extension Railroad was chartered in 1890 and opened later that year, extending the line to its current terminus in Gladstone, New Jersey.

See also: New Jersey West Line Railroad

[edit] Freight service

Freight service on the Gladstone Branch is limited, but there is some, especially in Berkeley Heights.

[edit] Station listing

Milepost	City	Station	Oper	Connections
0	Hoboken	Hoboken Terminal	NJT	PATH and New York Waterways to New York City, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to local points, NJT 22, 23, 64, 68, 85, 87, 89, 126 buses
		Meadows Maintenance Complex	NJT	Main Overhaul and Maintenance Shop, employee stop
Midtown Direct trains join
5	Kearny	Kearny Junction		Midtown Direct trains from New York Penn Station and Secaucus Junction join the line via the Kearny Connection
7.8	Newark	Newark Broad Street	NJT	Newark Light Rail service, NJT 11, 13, 27, 28, 29, 39, 41, 43, 72, 76, 78, 108 buses
	Newark	Roseville Avenue		NJT Montclair-Boonton Line splits, abandoned station
	East Orange	Grove Street	NJT	abandoned
10		East Orange	NJT	NJT 21, 71, 73, 79, 94, 97 buses
10.6		Brick Church	NJT	NJT 21, 71, 73, 79, 94 buses
11.5	Orange	Orange	NJT	NJT 21, 41, 71, 73, 79, 92 buses
12.2	Orange	Highland Avenue	NJT	NJT 92 bus
13.1	South Orange	Mountain Station	NJT	NJT 92 bus
13.9	South Orange	South Orange	NJT	NJT 92, 107 buses
15.2	Maplewood	Maplewood	NJT
16.8	Millburn	Millburn	NJT	NJT 70 bus
17.8	Millburn	Short Hills	NJT
20.1	Summit	Summit	NJT	Branches off NJT Morristown Line, NJT 70 bus, WHEELS 986 bus
21.8	New Providence	New Providence	NJT	WHEELS 986 bus
23.4	New Providence	Murray Hill	NJT	WHEELS 986 bus
25.8	Berkeley Heights	Berkeley Heights	NJT
27.1	Long Hill	Gillette	NJT
28.5		Stirling	NJT
30.1		Millington	NJT
31.8	Bernards	Lyons	NJT
33.6	Bernards	Basking Ridge	NJT
34.6	Bernardsville	Bernardsville	NJT
39.0	Far Hills	Far Hills	NJT
41.3	Peapack-Gladstone	Peapack	NJT
42.3	Peapack-Gladstone	Gladstone	NJT
Midtown Direct service
0	New York City	New York Penn Station	NJT	Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak, New York City Subway, New York City Bus, MTA Bus
	Secaucus	Secaucus Junction	NJT	All NJT Rail lines except the Atlantic City Line and Raritan Valley Line, NJT 2, 129, 172 buses

[edit] External links

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Hoboken Division	Erie Lines: Bergen County Line – Main Line – Pascack Valley Line – Port Jervis Line Morris & Essex Lines: Gladstone Branch– Morristown Line Montclair-Boonton Line
Newark Division	North Jersey Coast Line – Northeast Corridor Line – Princeton Branch – Raritan Valley Line – Atlantic City Line
Light Rail	Hudson-Bergen Light Rail – Newark Light Rail – River Line
Connections	Aldene Connection – Hunter Connection – Kearny Connection – Montclair Connection – Secaucus Junction – Waterfront Connection
Other	List of New Jersey Transit stations – Retired New Jersey Transit rail fleet

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Bus	Bus operations • Bus fleet • Routes: 1-99, 100-199, 300-399, 400-449, 450-499, 500-549, 550-599, 600-699, 700-799, 800-849, Wheels, Morris County Metro
Rail	Hoboken Division: Main and Bergen County Lines, including the Port Jervis Line • Pascack Valley Line • Montclair-Boonton Line • Morris and Essex Lines (Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch) Newark Division: North Jersey Coast Line • Northeast Corridor Line (including Princeton Branch) • Raritan Valley Line Atlantic City Line
Light rail	Hudson-Bergen Light Rail • Newark Light Rail • River Line