Pascack Valley Line
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The Pascack Valley Line is a commuter rail line operated by New Jersey Transit and Metro-North Railroad that runs north from Hoboken, New Jersey through Bergen County and into Rockland County, New York, terminating at Spring Valley. The line is named for the Pascack Valley region that it passes through in northern Bergen County. The line parallels the Pascack Brook for some distance.
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[edit] Current operations
The line only offers peak hour service, Monday to Friday. Morning trains run south from Spring Valley to Hoboken, and in the evening head back in the opposite direction. Its total run is 31 miles (50 km), the last 6 (10 km) of which are in New York. The entire line is owned by NJ Transit, but the Pearl River and Nanuet Stations, as well as the right-of-way from the New York border to Spring Valley, is leased to Metro-North Railroad. Metro-North Railroad owns the Spring Valley station.
The line is limited to predominant-traffic commuter service since it has only one track for the majority of its run. Occasionally, Norfolk Southern uses the line for freight service. As of the summer of 2005, construction of rail sidings in the Meadowlands, Hackensack and Nanuet is underway. This project will allow for increased and bi-directional service; the expected completion date for the project, which involves resignaling the line, is by fall 2007[1][2].
[edit] History
The line was originally chartered as the Hackensack and New York Railroad in 1856. It later became the New Jersey and New York Railroad, which was bought by the Erie Railroad in 1896. The New Jersey and New York Railroad continued to exist as an Erie subsidiary until the 1960 merger that created the Erie Lackawanna Railroad.
The line used to continue north of Spring Valley to Thiells, New York, but is not in service currently. Part of the line (between Spring Valley and Nanuet) was once part of the main Erie Railroad line from Piermont, New York to Buffalo, New York.
[edit] Station stops
The following lists station stops heading northbound from Hoboken, including details on transfers available at each station.
- Hoboken Terminal (PATH, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and other NJ Transit lines)
- Secaucus Junction (other NJ Transit lines and service to New York Penn Station)
- Wood-Ridge
- Teterboro-Williams Avenue
- Hackensack-Essex Street
- Hackensack-Anderson Street
- North Hackensack
- River Edge
- Oradell
- Emerson
- Westwood
- Hillsdale
- Woodcliff Lake
- Park Ridge
- Montvale
[edit] Source
- The Pascack Valley Line: A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, Wilson E. Jones; ISBN 0-941652-14-9
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| Hoboken Division | Erie Lines: Bergen County Line – Main Line – Pascack Valley Line – Port Jervis Line Morris & Essex Lines: Gladstone Branch– Morristown Line Montclair-Boonton Line |
| Newark Division | North Jersey Coast Line – Northeast Corridor Line – Princeton Branch – Raritan Valley Line |
| South NJ and light rail | Atlantic City Line – Hudson-Bergen Light Rail – Newark Light Rail – River LINE |
| Connections | Aldene Connection – Hunter Connection – Kearny Connection – Montclair Connection – Secaucus Junction – Waterfront Connection |
| Other | List of New Jersey Transit stations – Retired New Jersey Transit rail fleet |
| Metro-North Railroad lines |
| New Haven - Harlem - Putnam - Hudson - Pascack Valley - Port Jervis New Canaan - Danbury - Waterbury |
