Port Reading Junction

Coordinates: 40°32′52″N 74°34′34″W / 40.547657°N 74.57624°W

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Port Reading Junction is a major rail junction (MANS) in Manville, New Jersey serving rail freight travelling between the Port of New York and New Jersey in Gateway Region of western New Jersey and points to the south and west. It is the site of Manville Yard.^[1]^[2]

History

The junction was originally developed in 1890 by the Reading Railroad Trenton Line near the Lehigh Valley Railroad Main Line to access Port Reading on the Arthur Kill in Woodbridge Township,^[3]^[4] mostly for coal transshipments.^[5] and a spur to Perth Amboy.

The railyard adjacent to the junction is sometimes still referred to as Weston as the part of Manville was once called from the larger community Weston.

Freight rail

The junction is at the convergence of the Norfolk Southern Railway Lehigh Line, the Conrail Shared Assets Operations Lehigh Line, and the CSX Transportation Trenton Subdivision,^[6] the last of which runs along the original ROW for Reading Line and the proposed West Trenton Line connection to the Raritan Valley Line.^[7]^[8] The junction was expanded in 2008 to accommodate the approximately 40 trains per day that were using it. It now consists of four tracks.^[9] ^[10]^[11]

References

40°32′52″N 74°34′34″W / 40.547657°N 74.57624°W / 40.547657; -74.57624 (Port Reading Junction)

^ "CSX.com - New Jersey". Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
^ Manville Yard Agreement, Conrail, December 31, 2001, retrieved 1 September 2016
^ New Jersey: 2010 - Population and Housing Unit Counts - 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH-2-32), United States Census Bureau, August 2012. Accessed November 30, 2012.
^ GCT-PH1 - Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place from the 2010 Census Summary File 1 for Middlesex County, New Jersey Archived 2020-02-12 at archive.today, United States Census Bureau. Accessed November 30, 2012.
^ "An Iconic Port Reading Historic Site Hangs on by a Thread". 20 March 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2016-09-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Jacobs Engineering n association with A. Strauss-Wieder, Inc. Atlantic Rail Services, Inc. (September 2008). "Freight Rail Grade-crossing Assessment Study". North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Proposed Restoration of Passenger Rail Service on the West Trenton Line Appendix K: Public Involvement" (PDF). njtransit.com. New Jersey Transit. November 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
^ "New Jersey State Rail Plan" (PDF). NJDOT. April 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
^ Unit, NJDOT Web Development. "Liberty Corridor, Port Reading Junction, Phase I Projects, In the Works".
^ "Port Reading Junction". REC Fabricators.

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