page_title: Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad
section_title: Intended connection westward
hierarchical_section_title: Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad / History / Intended connection westward
caption_attribution_description: English: Share of the Millstone &amp; New-Brunswick Railroad Co. from the 20. February 1883
context_page_description: The Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad was chartered in the mid-19th century as a seven-mile long branch line from New Brunswick, New Jersey to East Millstone, New Jersey. Construction was completed and the line began operation on December 19, 1854. In 1871, under the order of the company's president Martin Howell, the M&NB signed a 999-year lease with the United Jersey Railroad Company, which would later become part of the Pennsylvania Railroad known as the Millstone Branch. In 1915, the company was dissolved and became part of the United Jersey Railroad Company.
context_section_description: The M&NB was originally intended to cross the Millstone River and connect to western points in 1874 via the ill-fated Mercer and Somerset Railway, which was a short-lived line of the Pennsylvania Railroad in western New Jersey.
  The Mercer and Somerset Railway ran from Somerset Junction on the Belvidere Delaware Rail Road via Pennington and Hopewell to Millstone, with an intended connection to the Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad, via a bridge across the Millstone River, for a through route to New Brunswick.
  The Mercer and Somerset Railway was abandoned in 1880 after filing for bankruptcy, and the connection over the Millstone River to the M&NB was never built, except for a stone pillar in the middle of the Millstone River that remains today.
caption: Share of the Millstone & New-Brunswick Railroad Co. from the 20. February 1883
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