List of Public Service Railway lines
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The Public Service Railway operated the following streetcar lines in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Public Service assigned odd numbers to streetcar routes (as shown here) and even numbers to bus routes.[1]
Bergen Division
[edit]Route | Terminals | Major streets | History | Current status | |
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1 Hudson River | Edgewater Ferry Terminal, Edgewater | Paterson Broadway Terminal | part of the 751 bus route (east of Hackensack) 770 bus route (west of Hackensack) | ||
3 Fort Lee | Leonia | part of the 755 bus route | |||
5 Englewood | Tenafly | part of the 166 bus route (north of Palisades Park) | |||
5 Paterson-Suffern | Paterson Broadway Terminal | Suffern, New York | roughly the 746 bus route (south of Ridgewood) | ||
9 Coytesville | Edgewater Ferry Terminal, Edgewater | Coytesville | History | Replacement buses |
Central Division
[edit]Route | Terminals | Major streets | History | Current status | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 South Amboy | New Brunswick | South Amboy | roughly part of the 815 bus route | ||
3 Middlesex | New Brunswick | Perth Amboy | 814 bus route (west of Bonhamtown) 813 bus route (east of Bonhamtown) | ||
5 Rahway | Perth Amboy | Westfield | |||
7 Carteret | junction with Newark-Trenton Fast Line | Carteret | part of the 62 bus route | ||
9 Highland Park | New Brunswick | Piscatawaytown | roughly part of the 810 bus route (east of downtown New Brunswick) | ||
11 Elizabeth | Newark | Elizabeth | |||
13 Easton | New Brunswick | part of the 811 bus route | |||
15 New Brunswick-Trenton | New Brunswick | Trenton | |||
27 Aldene | Elizabeth | Aldene | part of the 58 bus route | ||
27 Elmora | Elizabeth | Elmora | part of the 58 bus route | ||
27 Raritan | New Brunswick | Raritan | |||
29 Jefferson | Elizabeth | ||||
45 Perth Amboy | Newark | Perth Amboy | part of the 62 bus route | ||
47 New Brunswick-Newark | Newark | New Brunswick | |||
49 Union | Newark | Bound Brook | 59 bus route (east of Dunellen) part of the 114 bus route (west of Dunellen) |
Essex Division
[edit]Route | Terminals | Major streets | History | Current status | |
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1 Newark | Newark Public Service Terminal | Exchange Place | part of the 1 bus route | ||
3 Bergen | Newark | ||||
5 Kinney | Newark | roughly part of the 34 (east of downtown Newark) part of the 5 bus route (west of downtown Newark) | |||
7 City Subway | Broad St. (renamed "Military Park" in 2012) Newark Penn Station | Franklin Ave. (renamed "Branch Brook Park" in 2012) Grove St. | Morris Canal bed | Newark City Subway | Still exists; incorporated into Newark Light Rail |
7 Weequahic | Newark | roughly part of the 39 bus route | |||
9 Clifton | Newark | part of the 99 bus route | |||
13 Broad | Newark | Nutley | part of the 13 bus route | ||
15 Nutley | Newark | Nutley | part of the 13 bus route | ||
17 Paterson | Newark | Paterson | part of the 13 bus route (south of Nutley) part of the 74 bus route (north of Nutley) | ||
19 Crosstown | Orange | Bloomfield | roughly part of the 92 bus route | ||
21 Orange | Newark | Orange | 21 bus route | ||
23 Central | Newark | Orange | part of the 24 bus route | ||
25 Springfield | Newark | Maplewood | roughly part of the 34 bus route (east of downtown Newark) 25 bus route (west of downtown Newark) | ||
27 Mount Prospect | Newark | part of the 27 bus route | |||
29 Bloomfield | Newark | Bloomfield or Caldwell | part of the 29 bus route (Caldwell) part of the 72 bus route (Bloomfield) | ||
31 South Orange | Newark | Maplewood | roughly part of the 25 bus route (east of downtown) part of the 31 bus route (west of downtown Newark) | ||
33 Market | Newark | part of the 1 bus route | |||
35 Kearny | Hillside | North Arlington | part of the 59 bus route (south of downtown Newark) roughly part of the 39 and 76 bus routes (north of downtown Newark) | ||
37 Hackensack | Newark | Edgewater Ferry Terminal, Edgewater | Ridge Road, Park Avenue, Hackensack Street, Court Street, Degraw Avenue | roughly the 76 (south of Hackensack) part of the 751 bus route (east of Hackensack) | |
39 Harrison | Newark | North Arlington | part of the 39 bus route | ||
41 Montrose | Orange | South Orange | |||
43 Jersey City | Newark Public Service Terminal | Exchange Place | 43 bus route | ||
51 Irvington | Irvington | part of the 13 bus route | |||
59 Valley Road | East Orange | Montclair | part of the 34 and 28 bus routes |
Hudson Division
[edit]Passaic Division
[edit]Route | Terminals | Major streets | History | Current status | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
3 Singac | Paterson Broadway Terminal | Singac | part of the 704 bus route | ||
7 Governor | Paterson | ||||
9 Park Avenue | Paterson Broadway Terminal | Paterson | part of the 744 bus route | ||
11 Totowa | Paterson | Totowa | roughly part of the 704 and 722 bus routes (northeast of downtown Paterson) | ||
13 Haledon | Paterson | Haledon | part of the 703 bus route | ||
76 Paterson Orange | Paterson station | Orange station |
Southern Division
[edit]Route | Terminals | Major streets | History | Current status | |
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5 Haddon Heights | Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (Pennsylvania RR, Camden & Amboy RR) Federal St. Ferry Terminal, Camden | Clementon Lake Amusement Park, Clementon | Haddon Ave., Atlantic Ave. | By 1935, a 1 trolley shuttle at the Clementon end, then All Service Vehicles, later part of the 50 & 53 bus routes | no exact service in 2012 |
References
[edit]- ^ Eid, Jr., Joseph; Gummere, Barker (2007), Streetcars of New Jersey: Metropolitan Northeast, ISBN 9780980102628
- ^ Federal Archived 2009-07-08 at the Wayback Machine