Route Description
West from Cranford the line follows the main line of the former Central Railroad of New Jersey. Until 1967 CNJ trains ran through Elizabeth and Bayonne to Jersey City, and terminated at Communipaw Terminal in what is today Liberty State Park. This station, which was also served by Reading Company trains to Philadelphia and B & O service to Washington, D.C. and beyond, had connections by chartered bus or ferry into Manhattan (the ferries serving the financial district).
At the end of April 1967 the Aldene Connection opened to the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and trains were re-routed to Newark Penn Station on the Northeast Corridor via Hunter Connection. This allowed CNJ to end the ferry service between Jersey City and Manhattan, which was losing money. Operation has changed little since 1967.
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