"RVL" redirects here. For other uses, see RVL (disambiguation).
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
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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]
^NJ TRANSIT QUARTERLY RIDERSHIP TRENDS ANALYSIS November 2012 Retrieved May 23, 2014.
^"world.nycsubway.org/Showing Image 36731". World.nycsubway.org. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
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