Provides comprehensive transit coverage throughout entire state.
Route History (Newark/Jersey City Local Routes)
Route History (Routes To New York City)
Route History (Camden/Southern New Jersey)
Route History (Atlantic City/Trenton Routes)
Route History (Passaic County/Bergen County Routes)
Route History (Middlesex County/Morris County Routes)
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Newark
Horse Car
1867-1876 - Newark Bloomfield & Montclair Horse Car Railroad Co.
1876-1886 - Newark & Bloomfield Street Railroad Co.
1864-1865 - Newark & South Orange Horse Car Railroad Co.
1865-1898 - Newark & South Orange Railway Co.
1864-1890 - Elizabeth & Newark Horse Railroad Co.
1890-1890 - Union County Street Railway Co.
1890-1893 - Elizabeth Passenger Railway Co.
1861-1880 - Newark & Irvington Horse Car Railroad Co.
1880-1890 - Newark & Irvington Street Railway Co.
1874-1890 - Essex Passenger Railway Co.
1890-1890 - Hudson & Bergen Street Railway Co.
1880-1892 - Ferry Street & Hamburg Place Railroad Co.
1890-1893 - Newark Passenger Railway
1890-1893 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
Electric Streetcar
1891-1893 - Rapid Transit Street Railway Co.
1892-1895 - Passaic & Newark Electric Railway Co.
1895-1895 - Passaic & Newark Electric Traction Co.
1893-1899 - Consolidated Traction Co. of New Jersey
1894-1903 - North Jersey Street Railway Co.
1903-1907 - Public Service Corp. of New Jersey
1907-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1922 - buses introduced
1928-1971 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1935-1948 - operated trolleybuses
1952 - streetcars discontinued
1971-1980 - Transport of New Jersey
Orange
Horse Car
1886-1888 - Orange Crosstown & Orange Valley Street Railway Co.
1888-1893 - Orange Crosstown & Bloomfield Street Railway Co.
1893-1898 - Suburban Traction Co.
1894-1895 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
1898-1903 - Orange & Passaic Valley Railway Co.
1903-1907 - Public Service Corp. of New Jersey
1907-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1923 - buses introduced
1928-1971 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1937 - streetcars discontinued
1971-1980 - Transport of New Jersey
ADDITIONAL HISTORIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY
1895-1897 - South Orange & Maplewood Street Railway Co.
1897-1903 - South Orange & Maplewood Traction Co.
1903 to Public Service Corp. of New Jersey/above
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)
Jersey City/Hoboken
Horse Car
1859-1893 - Jersey City & Bergen Railroad Co.
1892-1893 - New Jersey Traction Co.
1893-1899 - Consolidated Traction Co. of New Jersey
1894-1898 - Jersey City Harrison & Kearney Railway Co.
1899-1903 - North Jersey Street Railway Co.
1894 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
Horse Car
1872-1894 - Palisades Railroad Co.
1886 - horse cars replaced with steam dummy
1894 - steam dummy replaced with electric streetcars
1894-1899 - North Hudson County Railway Co.
Horse Car
1861-1903 - North Hudson County Railway Co. (Hoboken)
1890-1894 - operated steam dummy
1890-1894 - operated cable cars
1867-1891 - Pavonia Horse Railroad Co.
1893-1900 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
Electric Streetcar
1893-1893 - Hudson & Bergen Traction Co.
Electric Streetcar
1899-1903 - Jersey City Hoboken & Paterson Railway Co.
1903-1907 - Public Service Corp. of New Jersey
1907-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1924 - buses introduced
1928-1971 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1936-1947 - operated trolleybuses
1949 - streetcars discontinued
1971-1980 - Transport of New Jersey
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)
Horse Car
1872-1896 - Camden Horse Railroad Co.
1890-1898 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
1896-1903 - Camden & Suburban Railway Co.
1903-1907 - Public Service Corp. of New Jersey
1907-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1923 - buses introduced
1928-1971 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1935 - streetcars discontinued
1971-1980 - Transport of New Jersey
HISTORIC INTERURBAN RAILWAY
Camden-Elizabeth (1899-1931)
1899-1910 - Camden & Trenton Railway Co.
1910-1912 - Riverside Traction Co. (Camden-Trenton)
1902-1910 - Trenton & New Brunswick Railroad Co.
1910-1913 - Elizabeth & Trenton Railroad Co.
1912-1931 - Public Service Railroad Co.
Paterson/Passaic
Horse Car
1863-1899 - Paterson Horse Railroad Co.
1866-1877 - Paterson & Little Falls Horse & Steam Railroad Co.
1877-1888 - Paterson City Railroad Co.
1868-1876 - Paterson & Passaic Horse Railroad Co.
1876-1888 - Paterson & Passaic Railroad Co.
1868-1880 - Paterson & Haledon Railroad Co.
1880-1888 - Haledon Horse Railway Co.
1890-1891 - Passaic Garfield & Clifton Railway Co.
1888-1892 - Paterson Railway Co.
1891-1893 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
1891-1892 - Central Electric Railway Co.
1892-1899 - Paterson Central Electric Railroad Co.
1899-1903 - Jersey City Hoboken & Paterson Railway Co.
1903-1907 - Public Service Corp. of New Jersey
1907-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1916 - buses introduced
1928-1971 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1929 - streetcars discontinued
1971-1980 - Transport of New Jersey
ADDITIONAL HISTORIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY
1892-1894 - Paterson & Little Falls Electric Railway Co.
1894 to Paterson Central Electric Railroad Co./above
ADDITIONAL HISTORIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY
1889-1893 - Passaic Rutherford & Carlstadt Electric Railway Co.
1892-1893 - Paterson & Passaic Electric Railway Co.
1892-1893 - Peoples Park Railway Co.
1893-1893 - Grant Street Electric Railway Co.
1893-1893 - Jersey City Hoboken & Rutherford Electric Railway Co.
1893-1894 - Paterson Passaic & Rutherford Electric Railway Co.
1894-1899 - New Jersey Electric Railway Co.
1899-1899 - White Line Traction Co.
1899 to Jersey City Hoboken & Paterson Railway Co./above
ADDITIONAL HISTORIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY
1899-1899 - Saddle River Traction Co.
1899 to Jersey City Hoboken & Paterson Railway Co./above
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)
Rutherford/Hackensack
Horse Car
1894-1897 - Rutherford Railway Co.
1896-1897 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars operated by new company
Electric Streetcar
1896-1899 - Union Traction Co. (Rutherford)
1899-1903 - Newark & Hackensack Traction Co. (Rutherford)
1903-1903 - Hudson River Traction Co.
1896-1900 - Bergen County Traction Co. (Hackensack)
1900-1910 - New Jersey & Hudson River Railway & Ferry Co.
1910-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1928 - buses introduced
1928-1971 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1938 - streetcars discontinued
1971-1980 - Transport of New Jersey
ADDITIONAL HISTORIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY
1900-1900 - Ridgefield & Teaneck Railway Co.
1900 to New Jersey & Hudson River Railway & Ferry Co./above
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)
Elizabeth/Rahway/Woodbridge/Perth Amboy
Horse Car
1887-1900 - Elizabeth Street Railway Co.
1869-1900 - Elizabeth City Horse Railroad Co.
1900-1903 - Elizabeth Plainfield & Central Jersey Railway Co. (Elizabeth)
1903 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
Electric Streetcar
1893-1896 - Rahway Electric Street Railway Co.
1896-1900 - Rahway Electric Railway Co.
1898-1900 - Woodbridge & Sewaren Electric Street Railway Co.
1900-1904 - Raritan Traction Co. (Perth Amboy)
1900-1903 - Elizabeth Plainfield & Central Jersey Railway Co.
1903-1907 - Public Service Corp. of New Jersey
1907-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1923 - buses introduced
1928-1971 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1933 - streetcars discontinued
1971-1980 - Transport of New Jersey
ADDITIONAL HISTORIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY
1900-1900 - Elizabeth & Westfield Street Railway Co.
1900 to Elizabeth Plainfield & Central Jersey Railway Co./above
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)
Plainfield
1892-1900 - Plainfield Street Railway Co.
1900-1903 - Elizabeth Plainfield & Central Jersey Railway Co.
1903-1907 - Public Service Corp. of New Jersey
1907-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1923 - buses introduced
1928-1953 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1933 - streetcars discontinued
1953-1992 - Plainfield Transit
After 1992 - Central Jersey Transit
New Brunswick
Horse Car
1867-1887 - New Brunswick Horse Railroad
1868-1890 - New Brunswick City Railroad Co.
1890-1895 - New Brunswick City Railway Co.
1895-1900 - Brunswick Traction Co.
1896 - horse cars replaced with electric streetcars
1900-1904 - Middlesex & Somerset Traction Co.
1904-1907 - Public Service Corp. of New Jersey
1907-1928 - Public Service Railway Co.
1923 - buses introduced
1928-1953 - Public Service Coordinated Transport
1931 - streetcars discontinued
1953-1964 - Suburban Transit Corp.
1964-1987 - Middlesex Bus Co.
1987-1992 - Middlesex Metro
After 1992 - Central Jersey Transit
ADDITIONAL HISTORIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY
1898-1898 - New York & Philadelphia Traction Co.
1898 to Brunswick Traction Co./above
Historic suburban/interurban bus lines operated by several companies (mostly a 1952 sampling)