Lyndhurst Draw

Lyndhurst Draw
Lyndhurst Draw
	Lyndhurst Draw as seen from Route 507 in Lyndhurst.
Coordinates	40°49′14″N 74°07′36″W / 40.8206°N 74.1267°W
Crosses	Passaic River
Locale	Clifton and Lyndhurst,; New Jersey
Owner	New Jersey Transit
Characteristics
Design	Swing bridge
Total length	441 feet (134 m)
Longest span	155.8 feet (47.5 m)
History
Opened	1903
Location

The Lyndhurst Draw is a railroad bridge crossing the Passaic River between Clifton and 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 and Delawanna stations of NJT's Main Line, 8.52 miles (13.71 km) from its origination point at Hoboken Terminal, and 11.7 miles (18.8 km) 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.^[1] It is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places (ID#2950).^[2]

The lower 17 miles (27 km) of the ninety-mile (140 km) long Passaic River downstream of the Dundee Dam is tidally influenced and navigable.^[3] Rail service across the river was originally oriented to bringing passengers and freight from the points west over the Hackensack Meadows to Bergen Hill, where tunnels and cuts provided access 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 through downtown 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.

References

^ "Drawbridge Operation Regulations; Passaic River, NJ (Coast Guard 33 CFR Part 117" (PDF). Rules and Regulations. Federal Register Vol. 63, No. 120. June 23, 1998. Retrieved 2012-08-05. (m) The draw of the NJTRO Bridge, mile 11.7, shall open on signal after at least a 24 hour notice is given by calling the number posted at the bridge.
^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Bergen County". NJ DEP - Historic Preservation Office. p. 8. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
^ "Lower Passaic River Restoration Project Commercial Navigation Analysis" (PDF). United States Army Corps of Engineers. July 2, 2010. Retrieved 2012-03-19.

External links

NJTR - Lyndhurst Draw at Bridgehunter.com
Lyndhurst Draw on Flickr
1902 flood at nytimes.com

[1] "Drawbridge Operation Regulations; Passaic River, NJ (Coast Guard 33 CFR Part 117" (PDF). Rules and Regulations. Federal Register Vol. 63, No. 120. June 23, 1998. Retrieved 2012-08-05. (m) The draw of the NJTRO Bridge, mile 11.7, shall open on signal after at least a 24 hour notice is given by calling the number posted at the bridge.

[NJRHP-2] "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Bergen County". NJ DEP - Historic Preservation Office. p. 8. Retrieved 2012-08-21.

[USACE-3] "Lower Passaic River Restoration Project Commercial Navigation Analysis" (PDF). United States Army Corps of Engineers. July 2, 2010. Retrieved 2012-03-19.

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Hoboken Division	Bergen County Line Main Line Meadowlands Rail Line Montclair-Boonton Line Morris & Essex Lines ( Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch) Pascack Valley Line Port Jervis Line
Newark Division	Atlantic City Line North Jersey Coast Line Northeast Corridor Line Princeton Branch Raritan Valley Line
Connections	Aldene Connection Harold Interlocking Lehigh Line Connection Kearny Connection Montclair Connection Port Morris Junction Secaucus Junction Waterfront Connection
Current rolling stock	EMD GP40PH-2 ALP-46 ALP-45DP PL42AC Comet coaches Comet V MultiLevel coaches Arrow multiple units
Bridges and tunnels	Beach Bridge Bergen Tunnels Brielle Draw Connecting Railway Bridge DB Draw Delair Bridge Dock Bridge East River Tunnels HX Draw Lower Hack Lift Lyndhurst Draw Morgan Draw Morrisville–Trenton Railroad Bridge Newark Drawbridge North River Tunnels Oceanport Draw Portal Bridge Rahway River Bridge Raritan Bay Drawbridge Raritan River Bridge Roseville Tunnel Shark River Draw Upper Hack Lift WR Draw
Stations and yards	List of stations Historic stations County Yard Morrisville Yard Sunnyside Yard
Proposed lines	Lackawanna Cut-Off Monmouth Ocean Middlesex Line West Trenton Line
Other topics	Access to the Region's Core Atlantic City Express Service Glassboro–Camden Line Gateway Program Mid-Line Loop Northern Branch Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Sawtooth Bridges Train to the Game Former stations Proposed stations

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