Port Reading Junction is a major

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(MANS) in

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serving rail freight travelling between the

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in northeastern New Jersey and points to the south and west. It is the site of Manville Yard.

History

The junction was originally developed in 1890 by the Reading Railroad Trenton Line near the

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Main Line to access Port Reading on the

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in Woodbridge Township,New Jersey: 2010 - Population and Housing Unit Counts - 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH-2-32)

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, August 2012. Accessed November 30, 2012. mostly for coal transshipments. and a spur to Perth Amboy. The railyard adjacent to the junction is sometimes still referred to as Weston as the part of Manville was once called from the larger community Weston.

Freight rail

The junction is at the convergence of the Norfolk Southern Railway Lehigh Line, the

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Shared Assets Operations Lehigh Line, and the CSX Transportation Trenton Subdivision, the last of which runs along the original ROW for

Reading Line The Reading Line is a main freight line in Pennsylvania owned and operated by Norfolk Southern Railway. It stretches from the Harrisburg Line at Wyomissing Junction in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania to a junction with the Lehigh Line in Bethlehem, Pen ...

and the proposed West Trenton Line connection to the Raritan Valley Line. The junction was expanded in 2008 to accommodate the approximately 40 trains per day that were using it. It now consists of four tracks.

References

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History

Freight rail

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