Raritan Valley Line

Raritan Valley Line
Train #5439 stops at Dunellen station
Overview
Owner	Amtrak (east of Hunter) CSAO (Hunter to Aldene) New Jersey Transit (Aldene westward)
Locale	North Jersey, U.S.
Termini	New York Penn Station Newark Penn Station Raritan High Bridge
Stations	20
Service
Type	Commuter rail
System	New Jersey Transit Rail Operations
Operator(s)	New Jersey Transit
Rolling stock	GP40PH-2, PL42AC or ALP-45 locomotives Comet or MultiLevel coaches
Daily ridership	21,800 (FY 2012)[1]
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead line, 12 kV 25 Hz (Newark-New York)
Operating speed	80 mph (130 km/h) (top)
Route map Legend Northeast Corridor & LIRR Main Line to Boston & Greenport 3.0 mi 4.8 km Sunnyside Yard East River Tunnels (East River) 0.0 mi 0 km New York Penn Station Hudson River NY NJ North River Tunnels 3.5 mi 5.6 km Secaucus Junction (Main Line) Portal Bridge (Hackensack River) Waterfront Connection Kearny Connection I-95 / N.J. Turnpike 8.3 mi 7.2 mi Hudson interlocking to World Trade Center Harrison Dock Bridge (Passaic River) 8.8 mi 14.2 km Newark Penn Station South Street closed Route 21 CSAO Lehigh Line Lehigh Line Connection Northeast Corridor to Washington Route 27 I-78 US 22 Union 17.2 mi 27.7 km Roselle Park Route 28 CNJ Main Line Aldene Connection CSAO Lehigh Line G.S. Parkway 19.5 mi 31.4 km Cranford 20.6 mi 33.2 km Garwood 21.8 mi 35.1 km Westfield Route 28 23.9 mi 38.5 km Fanwood 25.1 mi 40.4 km Netherwood 26.3 mi 42.3 km Plainfield Route 28 27.4 mi 44.1 km Grant Avenue Clinton Avenue 29.2 mi 47 km Dunellen Middlesex 33.5 mi 53.9 km Bound Brook to Lehigh Line I-287 Bridgewater West Trenton Line to West Trenton Chimney Rock Spur Finderne 37.9 mi 61 km Somerville CNJ Central Branch to Flemington US 206 39.1 mi 62.9 km Raritan Raritan Yard US 202 North Branch Raritan River North Branch White House Rockaway Valley Railroad to Watnong Lebanon US 22 I-78 Annandale South Branch Raritan River High Bridge Former service High Bridge Branch to Wharton Glen Gardner Route 31 Hampton Branch to Washington Hampton Ludlow–Asbury I-78 / US 22 Bloomsbury Musconetcong River NS Lehigh Line I-78 route severed Morris Canal NS Lehigh Line LV Main Line Phillipsburg Union Station Washington Secondary to Morris & Essex Lines Bel-Del Connector Belvidere & Delaware River RR Morris Canal Delaware River NJ PA NS Lehigh Line to Easton This diagram: view talk edit

The Raritan Valley Line is a commuter rail service operated by New Jersey Transit (NJT) which serves passengers in municipalities in Union, Somerset, Middlesex, Essex and Hunterdon counties in the Raritan Valley region in central New Jersey, United States. The line's most frequent western terminus is Raritan station in Raritan. Some weekday trains continue farther west and terminate at the High Bridge station, located in High Bridge. Most eastbound trains terminate in Newark; passengers are able to transfer to NJ Transit using a combined ticket or PATH (rail system) and Amtrak to New York City. A limited number of weekday trains continue directly to New York.

Raritan Valley Line trains use three lines owned by three entities. Between High Bridge and the Aldene Connection, east of Cranford, it uses the former Central Railroad of New Jersey Main Line, now owned by New Jersey Transit and also called the Raritan Valley Line. From the Aldene Connection to Hunter it uses Conrail's Lehigh Line, formerly the east end of Lehigh Valley Railroad Main Line. Finally, it uses Amtrak's Northeast Corridor from the Hunter Connection to Newark and New York.

The Raritan Valley Line is colored orange on New Jersey Transit's system map, and its symbol is the Statue of Liberty, an homage to the Central Railroad of New Jersey, whose logo was also the Statue of Liberty.^[2]