Raritan Valley Line

Raritan Valley Line
Train No. 5439 stops at Dunellen station
Overview
Owner	Amtrak (east of Hunter) CSAO (Hunter to Aldene) New Jersey Transit (Aldene westward)
Locale	Central and northern New 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 mi via East River Tunnels 0.0 New York Penn Station via Albany–Rensselaer North River Tunnels (Hudson River) NY NJ Hoboken 5.0 Secaucus Junction (Main Line) via Summit 10.0 Newark Penn Station via Trenton 15.3 Union 17.2 Roselle Park 19.2 Cranford 20.4 Garwood 21.6 Westfield 23.7 Fanwood 25.0 Netherwood 26.2 Plainfield 29.1 Dunellen 33.3 Bound Brook 34.5 Bridgewater 37.8 Somerville 39.0 Raritan 42.5 North Branch 47.4 White House 51.1 Lebanon 53.5 Annandale 55.3 High Bridge 55.3 Former service 55.3 Glen Gardner 55.3 Hampton 55.3 Phillipsburg This diagram: view talk edit Show map of service Legend mi CSAO Lehigh Line CNJ Main Line 16.9 15.0 Aldene Connection CSAO Lehigh Line G.S. Parkway 16.1 Cranford 17.3 Garwood 18.5 Westfield Route 28 20.6 Fanwood 21.9 Netherwood 23.1 Plainfield Route 28 23.9 Grant Avenue Clinton Avenue 26.0 Dunellen Middlesex 30.2 Bound Brook to Lehigh Line I-287 31.4 Bridgewater West Trenton Line to West Trenton Chimney Rock Spur 32.9 Finderne 34.7 Somerville CNJ Central Branch to Flemington US 206 35.9 Raritan Raritan Yard US 202 North Branch Raritan River 39.4 North Branch 44.3 White House Rockaway Valley Railroad to Watnong 48.0 Lebanon US 22 I-78 50.4 Annandale South Branch Raritan River 52.2 High Bridge High Bridge Branch to Wharton 55.1 Glen Gardner Route 31 Hampton Branch to Washington 56.6 Hampton 60.0 Ludlow–Asbury NS Central industrial track [2][3] This diagram: view talk edit Show map of line

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, primarily in central New Jersey and a smaller portion of northern New Jersey, in the 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.^[4]