The Lyndhurst Draw is a railroad bridge crossing the Passaic River between Clifton, New Jersey, Clifton and Lyndhurst, New Jersey, Lyndhurst in northeastern New Jersey. Built in 1903, it is owned and operated by New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (NJT). The swing bridge is situated between the Lyndhurst (NJT station), Lyndhurst and Delawanna (NJT station), Delawanna stations of NJT's Main Line (NJ Transit), Main Line, from its origination point at Hoboken Terminal, and from the river's mouth at Newark Bay. Norfolk Southern Railway uses the bridge to access Croxton Yard to the east across the New Jersey Meadowlands. The bridge is required by federal regulations to open on 24-hour notice. It is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places (ID#2950). The lower of the long Passaic River downstream of the Dundee Canal, Dundee Dam is tide, tidally influenced and Navigability, navigable. Rail service across the river was originally oriented to bringing passengers and freight from the points west over the New Jersey Meadowlands, Hackensack Meadows to Bergen Hill, where List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey, tunnels and cuts provided access Railroad terminals serving New York City, terminals on the Hudson River. The crossing of the river was developed under the auspices of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DL&W) as part of its Boonton Branch, which in 1960 merged with the Erie Railroad to form the Erie Lackawanna. In 1963, the Erie's Main Line south of Paterson, New Jersey, Paterson through downtown Passaic, New Jersey, Passaic was abandoned and service was shifted to the alignment over the Lyndhurst Draw and the Upper Hack Lift. Operations were later taken over by Conrail under contract with the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and in 1983 by NJT.

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NJTR - Lyndhurst Draw
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