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The West Trenton Line is a planned commuter rail service that would be operated by New Jersey Transit (NJT), connecting West Trenton Station in Ewing, New Jersey with Newark Penn Station in Newark, New Jersey. The route would connect with the Raritan Valley Line at Bridgewater. As of 2007, NJT's estimate of the cost of creating a passenger line to West Trenton was $219 million.[1] To date, no funding for the proposal has been secured.[1]
Serivce on this line was a descendent of the Reading Company's Crusader and Wall Street trains, which originally operated as through service from Reading Terminal in Philadelphia to Jersey City. Conrail then operated the service under contract to SEPTA and NJT using Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDC) until 1981. NJT then continued operating the RDCs until November 1982, when service ended due to dwindling ridership.
Presently, the route is owned by CSX Transportation; all station platforms have been removed except at West Trenton, which is currently used by the SEPTA West Trenton Line, a commuter line to Philadelphia.
Trains would continue along the Raritan Valley Line from Bridgewater to Newark Penn Station.
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