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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Newark's Trolley System - Length: 4:39 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - NJ Trolley - Length: 5:11 mins. |
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MAP
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ROUTES
STREETCAR ROUTES
Operator: Public Service Coordinated Transport
ESSEX DIVISION (Newark, Orange, Caldwell)
| 7 | Newark Pennsylvania Station - Newark Subway - Franklin Av. |
| 21A | Newark Pennsylvania Station - Newark Subway - Market St. - Main St. - Erie RR Orange Stn. |
| 21B | Newark Pennsylvania Station - Newark Subway - Orange St. - Main St. - West Orange |
| 23 | Newark Pennsylvania Station - Newark Subway - Central Av. - Jefferson Av. |
| 29 | Newark Pennsylvania Station - Newark Subway - Bloomfield Av. - Caldwell (Central Av.) |
HUDSON DIVISION (Jersey City, Hoboken etc.)
| 7 | Hoboken Terminal (Ferry) - Jackson Av. [Martin Luther King Dr.] - Gates Av. |
| 17 | Hoboken Terminal (Ferry) - Central Av. - Weehawken (32nd St.) |
| 19 | Hoboken Terminal (Ferry) - Palisade Av. [back: New >York Av.] - Weehawken - Union City (West Shore Stn.) |
| 37 | Hoboken Terminal (Ferry) - Jersey City (Hoboken Av.) [Rush hours only] |
RAPID TRANSIT ROUTES
Exact routes unknown
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Streetcars: ? km.
- Hudson & Manhattan RR: 22.2 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-traction streetcars: (Essex Division) 1859 - 1895; (Hudson Division) 1860 - 1895
- Steam-dummy traction: (Essex Division) 1878-1879
- Cable car: (Essex Division) 1888 only
- Electric streetcars: (Essex Division) 4 Oct. 1890 - 30 March 1952 (except for the Newark City Subway); (Hudson Division) 1892 - 7 Aug. 1949
- Newark City Subway (and surface line): 16 May 1935 - 16 July 2006 (integrated into Newark Light Rail)
- Hudson-Bergen Light Rail: 15 Apr. 2000 - today
- Newark Light Rail: 17 July 2006 - today
- Rapid transit (in tunnel under the Hudson): 26 Feb. 1908 - today (service between Lower Manhattan and Hoboken interruped due to the 9/11 attacks: 11 Sept. 2001 - Nov. 2003)
GAUGE
- Light rail / Streetcars / PATH (formerly Hudson & Manhattan Railroad System): 1435 mm.
SOURCES
- Craig, P. "Newark: New Jersey's best kept secret revealed", Tramways & Urban Transit, Nov. 2006 (69: 827), p.298-299.
- Kyper, F. "Newark's best-kept secret - The City Subway", Modern Tramway, July 1968 (31: 367), p.231-235.
- Lietwiler, C. "Light rail takes off in New Jersey", Tramways & Urban Transit, July 2000 (63: 751), p.248-250.
WIKIS
WEB SITES
Also, many thanks to Mr Russell Powers of Lone Tree, CO, USA, for kindly sending me information and documents concerning the history of the streetcar systems in northern New Jersey.
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