Pascack Valley Line
The Pascack Valley Line is a commuter rail line operated by the Hoboken Division of New Jersey Transit, in the United States. The line runs north from Hoboken Terminal, through Hudson County and Bergen County in New Jersey, and into Rockland County in New York, terminating at Spring Valley. Service within New York State is operated under contract with Metro-North Railroad. 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. The line is colored purple on system maps, and its symbol is a pine tree.
Description
The Pascack Valley Line runs between Spring Valley, New York, and Hoboken Terminal. The line is 31 miles (50 km) long, of which the northernmost 6 miles (9.7 km) are in New York State. The entire line is owned by NJ Transit, but the Pearl River, Nanuet and Spring Valley stations are leased to Metro-North Railroad. The line is single tracked, but sidings at points along the line, including the Meadowlands, Hackensack and Nanuet, permit bi-directional off-peak service. A siding in Oradell was also planned for increased service and reliability, but the project was halted due to local opposition.[1][2] Service on this line operates seven days a week.[3]
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 October 17, 1960 merger that created the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.[4]
On April 1, 1976 the Erie Lackawanna was merged with several other railroads to create Conrail.[5][6] In 1983, after several years under operation by Conrail, operations of the Pascack Valley Line were transferred to NJ Transit Rail Operations.
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.
September 2016 crash
On September 29, 2016, a Pascack Valley Line train crashed at Hoboken Terminal injuring over 100 and killing one.[7]
Rolling stock
All service on this line is diesel, using either GP40PH-2, PL42AC, or ALP-45DP locomotives. Comet series passenger cars are used on this line; Bombardier MultiLevel coaches are occasionally used on this line.
Some train sets use equipment owned by Metro-North, which are so marked.
Stations
| Zone [8] |
Station[8] | Miles (km) from HOB |
Date opened |
Date closed |
Connections / notes[8] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoboken Terminal  |
0.0 (0.0) | 1903 |  NJ Transit: Bergen County, Gladstone, Main, Meadowlands, Montclair-Boonton, Morristown, North Jersey Coast, and Raritan Valley Lines Metro-North: Port Jervis Line Hudson-Bergen Light Rail: 8th Street-Hoboken, Hoboken-Tonnelle PATH: HOB-WTC, HOB-33, JSQ-33 (via HOB) NJT Bus: 22, 22X, 23, 54, 68, 85, 87, 89, 126 New York Waterway to Battery Park City | |
| Morris & Essex Lines (Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch) diverge | |||||
| Secaucus Junction |
3.5 (5.6) | 2003 | NJ Transit: Bergen County, Gladstone, Main, Meadowlands, Montclair-Boonton, Morristown, North Jersey Coast, Northeast Corridor, and Raritan Valley Lines Metro-North: Port Jervis Line NJT Bus: 2, 78, 129, 329, 353 | ||
| Main Line diverges | |||||
| Bergen County Line diverges | |||||
| Meadowlands Rail Line diverges | |||||
| 3 | Wood-Ridge | 9.6 (15.4) | c. 1860 | Formerly Wood-Ridge-Moonachie | |
| Hasbrouck Heights | |||||
| 4 | Teterboro (limited service) |
11.2 (18.0) | |||
| 5 | Essex Street |
12.4 (20.0) | 1860 | NJT Bus: 76, 712, 780 Formerly Hackensack | |
| Center Street | |||||
| Anderson Street | 13.5 (21.7) | 1869[9] | NJT Bus: 175, 770 | ||
| Fairmount Avenue | 1869[10] | 1983[11] | |||
| 6 | New Bridge Landing | 14.7 (23.7) | 1870[10] | NJT Bus: 175, 762 Rockland Coaches: 11 Formerly Cherry HIll,[10] then North Hackensack | |
| River Edge | 16.4 (29.4) | 1900 | NJT Bus: 175, 762 Rockland Coaches: 11 | ||
| New Milford | |||||
| 7 | Oradell | 17.8 (28.6) | NJT Bus: 175, 762 Rockland Coaches: 11 | ||
| 8 | Emerson | 19.3 (31.1) | NJT Bus: 165 Rockland Coaches: 11 | ||
| 9 | Westwood |
20.5 (33.0) | NJT Bus: 165 Rockland Coaches: 11, 14, 46, 84 | ||
| Hillsdale | 21.4 (34.4) | 1869 | Rockland Coaches: 11 | ||
| Hillsdale Manor | |||||
| 10 | Woodcliff Lake | 22.7 (36.5) | |||
| Park Ridge | 23.6 (38.0) | ||||
| Montvale |
24.2 (38.9) | Rockland Coaches: 11 | |||
| New Jersey / New York state line | |||||
| MNR | Pearl River | 25.6 (41.2) | Transport of Rockland: 92 Operated by Metro-North Railroad | ||
| Nanuet |
27.9 (44.9) | Transport of Rockland: 92 Rockland Coaches: 11 Operated by Metro-North Railroad | |||
| Spring Valley | 30.6 (49.2) | Transport of Rockland: 59, 91, 92, 94, Monsey Loop 3, Tappan ZEExpress Rockland Coaches: 11, 45 Operated by Metro-North Railroad | |||
| Woodbine | 31.2 (50.2) | ||||
References
- The Pascack Valley Line: A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, Wilson E. Jones; ISBN 0-941652-14-9
- ↑ Pascack Valley Line Right-of-Way Improvement Project. New Jersey Transit, January 2006.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ PASCACK VALLEY LINE CUSTOMERS TO GET IMPROVED SERVICE THIS FALL, New Jersey Transit Press Release August 16, 2007 Accessed September 13, 2007
- ↑ "Conrail merger family tree | Trains Magazine". Retrieved 2016-09-30.
- ↑ "Erie Lackawanna Historical Society". www.erielackhs.org. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
- ↑ Grant, H. Roger (1996-10-01). Erie Lackawanna: The Death of an American Railroad, 1938-1992. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804727983.
- ↑ A New Jersey Train Crash Has Left at Least 100 People Injured Esquire By Associated Press; Sep 29, 2016
- 1 2 3 "Pascack Valley Line Timetables - November 19, 2014 edition" (PDF). New York, New York: New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
- ↑ "Hackensack and New-York Railroad" (PDF). The New York Times. New York, New York: TimeWarner. September 9, 1869. Retrieved January 9, 2010.
- 1 2 3 Jones, Wilson E. (1996). The Pascack Valley Line - A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad. East Hanover, New Jersey: Railroadians of America. p. 44. ISBN 0-941652-14-9.
- ↑ Pascack Valley Line Timetables. Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Transit. 1982.
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