Pascack Valley Line
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The Pascack Valley Line is a commuter rail line operated by New Jersey Transit and Metro-North Railroad that runs north from Hoboken, New Jersey through Bergen County and into Rockland County, New York, terminating at Spring Valley. The line is named for the Pascack Valley region that it passes through in northern Bergen County. The line parallels the Pascack Brook for some distance.
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[edit] Current operations
The line only offers peak hour service, Monday to Friday. Morning trains run south from Spring Valley to Hoboken, and in the evening head back in the opposite direction. Its total run is 31 miles (50 km), the last 6 (10 km) of which are in New York. The entire line is owned by NJ Transit, but the Pearl River and Nanuet Stations, as well as the right-of-way from the New York border to Spring Valley, is leased to Metro-North Railroad. Metro-North Railroad owns the Spring Valley station.
The line is limited to predominant-traffic commuter service since it has only one track for the majority of its run. Occasionally, Norfolk Southern uses the line for freight service. As of the summer of 2005, construction of rail sidings in the Meadowlands, Hackensack and Nanuet is underway. This project will allow for increased and bi-directional service; the expected completion date for the project, which involves resignaling the line, is by fall 2007.[1][2][3]
[edit] History
The line was originally chartered as the Hackensack and New York Railroad in 1856. It later became the New Jersey and New York Railroad, which was bought by the Erie Railroad in 1896. The New Jersey and New York Railroad continued to exist as an Erie subsidiary until the 1960 merger that created the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.
The line used to continue north of Spring Valley to Haverstraw, New York. This portion of the line has been abandoned and most of the Right of Way has been sold off. Part of the line (between Spring Valley and Nanuet) was once part of the main Erie Railroad line from Piermont, New York to Buffalo, New York.
[edit] Station stops
The following lists station stops heading northbound from Hoboken, including details on transfers available at each station.
- Hoboken Terminal (PATH, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and other NJ Transit lines)
- Secaucus Junction (other NJ Transit lines and service to New York Penn Station)
- Wood-Ridge
- Teterboro-Williams Avenue
- Hackensack-Essex Street
- Hackensack-Anderson Street
- North Hackensack
- River Edge
- Oradell
- Emerson
- Westwood
- Hillsdale
- Woodcliff Lake
- Park Ridge
- Montvale
[edit] Source
- The Pascack Valley Line: A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, Wilson E. Jones; ISBN 0-941652-14-9
[edit] References
- ^ Pascack Valley Line Right-of-Way Improvement Project
- ^ NJ TRANSIT RAMPS UP PROJECT TO PROVIDE BI-DIRECTIONAL, OFF-PEAK SERVICE ON PASCACK VALLEY LINE: Project also makes way for rail service to the Meadowlands, press release dated May 11, 2005
- ^ Railroad.net Forums – Pascack Valley Sidings project status
[edit] External links
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| Hoboken Division | Erie Lines: Bergen – Main – Pascack Valley – Port Jervis Morris and Essex: Gladstone Branch and Morristown Line Montclair-Boonton |
| Newark Division | North Jersey Coast – Northeast Corridor – Princeton Branch – Raritan Valley – Atlantic City |
| Light rail | HBLR – Newark Light Rail – River Line |
| Connections | Aldene – Hunter – Kearny – Montclair – Secaucus – Waterfront |
| Other information | Stations – Retired fleet - System map |
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| East of Hudson (New York) | New York: Harlem • Hudson • Putnam (defunct line) |
| East of Hudson (Connecticut) | Main line: New Haven Branches: New Canaan • Danbury • Waterbury |
| West of Hudson | Pascack Valley • Port Jervis |
