List of New Jersey street railroads
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The following street, interurban
, or other electric railways operated in New Jersey
. Companies marked (PS) were or became part of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey.
Interurban
An interurban, also called a radial railway in parts of Canada, is a type of electric passenger railroad; in short a hybrid between tram and train. Interurbans enjoyed widespread popularity in the first three decades of the twentieth century in North America. Until the early 1920s, most roads were...
, or other electric railways operated in New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. Companies marked (PS) were or became part of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey.
- American Railways Company
- Asbury Park and Belmar Street Railway
- Asbury Park and Sea Girt Railroad
- Atlantic City Electric Railway
- Atlantic City and Ocean City Railroad
- Atlantic City and Shore Railroad
- Atlantic City and Suburban Traction Company
- Atlantic City Transportation Company
- Atlantic Coast Electric Railroad
- Atlantic Coast Electric Railway
- Atlantic Highlands, Red Bank and Long Branch Electric Railway
- Atlantic and Suburban Railway
- Bay Head and Point Pleasant Street Railway
- Bergen County Traction Company (PS)
- Bergen Turnpike Company (PS)
- Bridgeton and Millville Traction CompanyBridgeton and Millville Traction CompanyThe Bridgeton and Millville Traction Company was a streetcar company in southern New Jersey.-Interurban lines:In addition to trackage in Bridgeton, the following interurban streetcar lines were operated:...
- Bridgeton Rapid Transit Company
- Brigantine Transit Company
- Brigantine Transportation Company
- Brunswick Traction Company (PS)
- Burlington County Railway
- Burlington County Transit Company
- Burlington County Traction Company
- Camden and Atlantic Railroad (freight railroad with streetcars)
- Camden, Gloucester and Woodbury Railway (PS)
- Camden Horse Railroad (PS)
- Camden and Suburban Railway (PS)
- Camden and Trenton Railway (PS)
- Cape May, Delaware Bay and Sewell's Point Railroad
- Cape May and Schellinger's Landing Railroad
- Cape May and Sewell's Point Railroad
- Cape May Transportation Company
- Central Electric Railway (PS)
- Central Passenger Railway
- City Railway
- Clinton Avenue Horse Railway
- Coast Cities Railway
- Consolidated Traction Company of New Jersey (PS)
- Cumberland Traction Company
- Delaware Bay and Cape May Railroad
- Delaware Valley Traction Company
- East Jersey Street Railway (PS)
- East Jersey Traction Company (PS)
- Easton and Washington Traction Company
- Elizabeth Street Railway (PS)
- Elizabeth City Horse Railroad (PS)
- Elizabeth and Newark Horse Railroad
- Elizabeth Passenger Railway (PS)
- Elizabeth, Plainfield and Central Jersey Railway (PS)
- Elizabeth and Raritan River Street Railway (PS)
- Elizabeth and Trenton Railroad (PS)
- Essex Passenger Railway (PS)
- Ewing Passenger Railway
- Five Mile Beach Electric Railway
- Grant Street Electric Railway (PS)
- Hamilton Township Street Railway
- Hoboken and Manhattan Railroad
- Hudson and Bergen Railway (PS)
- Hudson and Bergen Traction Company (PS)
- Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
- Hudson and Manhattan Railway
- Hudson River Traction Company (PS)
- Jersey Central Traction Company
- Jersey City and Bergen Railroad (PS)
- Jersey City, Harrison and Kearney Railway (PS)
- Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson Street Railway (PS)
- Jersey City, Hoboken and Rutherford Electric RailwayJersey City, Hoboken and Rutherford Electric RailwayThe Jersey City, Hoboken and Rutherford Electric Railway was incorporated 1893, and leased from 1894-1899 to New Jersey Electric Railway Company The line was operated by Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson Street Railway. The track length was 18.57 miles....
(PS) - Keyport and Matawan Street Railway
- Lakewood and Seashore Railroad
- Middlesex and Somerset Traction Company (PS)
- Millville Rapid Transit Company
- Millville Traction CompanyMillville Traction CompanyThe Millville Traction Company operated streetcars in Millville, New Jersey, and along an interurban streetcar line to Vineland, New Jersey, along Main Road and Landis Avenue.-History:...
- Mercer County Traction Company
- Monmouth County Electric Railway
- Monmouth Traction Company
- Morris County Traction CompanyMorris County Traction CompanyThe Morris County Traction Company began trolley service in downtown Dover, New Jersey in July 1904. It was expanded over the years until the system was completed in 1914 all the way to Newark, New Jersey, via Morristown, New Jersey and Summit, New Jersey....
- Mount Holly Street Railway
- Mountain RailwayMountain railwayA mountain railway is a railway that ascends and descends a mountain slope that has a steep grade. Such railways can use a number of different technologies to overcome the steepness of the grade...
- Mulberry Street Passenger Railway
- New Brunswick City Railway (PS)
- New Jersey and Hudson River Railway and Ferry Company (PS)
- New Jersey Interurban Company
- New Jersey and Pennsylvania Traction Company
- New Jersey Rapid Transit Company
- New Jersey Short Line Railroad (PS)
- New Jersey Traction Company (PS)
- New Jersey TransitNew Jersey TransitThe New Jersey Transit Corporation is a statewide public transportation system serving the United States state of New Jersey, and New York, Orange, and Rockland counties in New York State...
- New York – Philadelphia Company (PS)
- New York and Philadelphia Traction Company (PS)
- Newark, Bloomfield and Montclair Horse Railroad
- Newark and Franklin Horse Railroad
- Newark and Hackensack Traction Company (PS)
- Newark and Irvington Street Railway (PS)
- Newark Passenger Railway (PS)
- Newark Plank Road Company (PS)
- Newark and South Orange Horse Car Railroad (PS)
- Newark and South Orange Railway (PS)
- Newark, South Orange, Ferry Street and Hamilton Place Railroad (PS)
- North Hudson County RailwayNorth Hudson County RailwayThe North Hudson Railway Company built and operated a streetcar system in Hudson County and southeast Bergen County, New Jersey before and after the turn of twentieth century. It was founded by John Bonn, and eventually taken over by the Public Service Railway...
(PS) - North Jersey Rapid Transit Company
- North Jersey Street Railway (PS)
- Northampton–Easton and Washington Traction Company
- Ocean City Electric Railroad
- Ocean City Electric Railway
- Ocean Street Passenger Railway
- Ogden Mine Railroad Company
- Orange Crosstown and Orange Valley Street Railway
- Orange Mountain Traction Company
- Orange and Newark Railroad (PS)
- Orange and Passaic Valley Railway (PS)
- Palisades Railroad (PS)
- Passaic, Garfield and Clifton Electric Railway
- Passaic and Newark Electric Railway (PS)
- Passaic and Newark Electric Traction Company (PS)
- Passaic, Rutherford and Carlstadt Electric RailwayPassaic, Rutherford and Carlstadt Electric RailwayThe Passaic, Rutherford and Carlstadt Electric Railway was a trolley line incorporated in 1889 and consolidated into the Paterson, Passaic and Rutherford Electric Railway in 1893....
- Paterson Horse Railroad (PS)
- Paterson Railway (PS)
- Paterson Central Railway (PS)
- Paterson Central Electric Railway (PS)
- Paterson City Railroad (PS)
- Paterson, Garfield and Clifton Railway (PS)
- Paterson and Little Falls Electric Railway (PS)
- Paterson and Passaic Electric Railway (PS)
- Paterson and Passaic Railroad (PS)
- Paterson, Passaic and Rutherford Electric RailwayPaterson, Passaic and Rutherford Electric RailwayThe Paterson, Passaic and Rutherford Electric Railway was a trolley line of 40.57 miles in track length incorporated in 1893 as a consolidation of Paterson & Little Falls Electric Railway Co., Grant Street Electric Railway Co., People's Park Railway Co., Paterson & Passaic Electric Railway Co. and...
(PS) - Paterson, Rutherford and Carlstadt Electric Railway (PS)
- Paterson and State Line Traction Company (PS)
- Paulsboro Traction Company
- Pavonia Horse Railroad (PS)
- Pennington Avenue Passenger Railway
- People's Elevating Company (PS)
- People's Park Railway (PS)
- Perth Amboy Railway (PS)
- Plainfield Street Railway (PS)
- Point Pleasant Traction Company
- Princeton Street Railway
- Public Service Coordinated Transport (PS)
- Public Service Corporation of New Jersey (PS)
- Public Service Railroad (PS)
- Public Service RailwayPublic Service RailwayThe Public Service Railway, owned by the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, operated most of the streetcar lines in New Jersey by the early 20th century. Public Service lines stretched from northeast New Jersey to Trenton, and then south to Camden and its suburbs...
(PS) - Rahway Electric Street Railway (PS)
- Rapid Transit Railway of the City of Newark (PS)
- Raritan Traction Company (PS)
- Ridgefield and Teaneck Railway (PS)
- Riverside Traction Company (PS)
- Saddle River Traction Company (PS)
- Salem and Pennsgrove Traction Company
- Seacoast Traction Company
- Seashore Electric Railway
- South Clinton Avenue and Broad Street Railway
- South Jersey Street Railway
- South Jersey Traction Company
- South Orange and Maplewood Traction Company (PS)
- Suburban Traction Company (PS)
- Transport of New JerseyTransport of New JerseyTransport of New Jersey , earlier Public Service Transportation and then Public Service Coordinated Transport, was a street railway and bus company in the U.S. state of New Jersey from 1917 to 1980, when New Jersey Transit took over operations...
- Trenton, Hamilton and Ewing Traction Company
- Trenton Horse Railroad
- Trenton, Lakewood and Atlantic Railway
- Trenton, Lakewood and Seacoast Railway
- Trenton, Lawrenceville and Princeton Railroad
- Trenton, Lawrenceville and Princeton Extension Railroad
- Trenton and Mercer County Traction Corporation
- Trenton and New Brunswick Railroad (PS)
- Trenton, New Hope and Lambertville Street Railway
- Trenton Passenger Railway
- Trenton, Pennington and Hopewell Street Railway
- Trenton–Princeton Traction Company
- Trenton Street Railway
- Trenton Terminal Railroad (PS)
- Trenton Transit Company
- Union Traction CompanyUnion Traction CompanyThe Union Traction Company was a trolley line that ran from Hackensack through Carlstadt to Rutherford, New Jersey. The line was conceived by Delos E. Culver. Originally the line was to run from Hackensack to Kearny, New Jersey but the company became insolvent and was merged into other trolley...
(PS) - West End and Long Branch Railway
- West Jersey Traction Company (PS)
- Westfield and Elizabeth Street Railway (PS)
- White Line Traction Company (PS)
- Woodbridge and Sewaren Street Railway (PS)
- Yardley, Morrisville and Trenton Street Railway
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