Morristown Line
Under the name Morristown Line offers New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) rail transport between Hoboken or New York's Pennsylvania Station and places in the Essex- , Union , Morris and Warren counties in the northern part of the US -Bundesstaates New Jersey on. Together with the Gladstone Branch , the connections are marketed as the Morris and Essex lines .
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On weekdays there are 25-30 pairs of trains between Pennsylvania Station, Secaucus Junction , Newark Broad Street, East Orange , Orange , South Orange , Maplewood , Millburn , Summit , Madison , Morristown , Morris Plains , Denville and Dover . Another 25 pairs of journeys run between Hoboken, Summit and further on the Gladstone Branch to Peapack-Gladstone , with mostly direct connections from / to Pennsylvania Station. In the case of individual connections, the branches of the line will be swapped in favor of direct connections New York – Gladstone or Hoboken – Dover.
Some trips run beyond Dover to Roxbury , Mount Olive and Hackettstown or start there. From Denville via Dover to Hackettstown there are also trains on the Montclair-Boonton line , which reach Hoboken and New York via a route further north.
On weekends and public holidays, connections between New York and Dover and connections to / from Hoboken are offered approximately every hour, while buses instead of trains run on the Gladstone Branch, with the exception of individual days.
Infrastructure
The approximately 85 km long connection from Hoboken via Summit to Denville and on via Dover to Hackettstown is part of the former main line of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) and was essentially built by this or predecessor companies between 1836 and 1854 . Between Hoboken and Dover, the route was along with the Gladstone Branch 1930 electrified . On October 17, 1960, DL&W merged with a former competitor, the Erie Railroad , to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad (EL), which went bankrupt in 1972. The infrastructure was taken over by the Conrail when it was founded in 1976. After the state of New Jersey had subsidized passenger transport since the 1960s, NJ Transit took over operations and infrastructure from Conrail in 1983. Trackage rights were granted to Conrail and its successor companies for freight transport .
The classic Morris and Essex lines were connected to the Northeast Corridor in 1996 via the Kearny Connection west of the Hackensack River near Newark . Since then, direct connections to and from Pennsylvania Station have been possible using the North River Tunnels under the Hudson River . The Northeast Corridor infrastructure is owned by Amtrak .