page_title: Newark Branch
section_title: Status of right-of-way
hierarchical_section_title: Newark Branch / Status of right-of-way
caption_attribution_description: Rarely used railway runs through Nutley, NJ. Once pat of Erie Railroad Newark Branch later Conrail/Norfolk Southern (Newark Industrial)
context_page_description: The Newark Branch was a branch of the Erie Railroad's Main Line in New Jersey, United States, running between Jersey City and Paterson with stops in the Broadway Section in North Newark. Inaugurated in the 1870s, the line was last used for passenger service on September 30, 1966. However freight service still remains on a section of the branch.
context_section_description: By the 1960s, only one of the two tracks was in a suitable condition, The line became part of Conrail and later Norfolk Southern Railway. (NS). In 1977 the line was severed when the NX Bridge over the Passaic the taken out of service and left in the open position. By 2002 the line east of it was out of service. That was due to the loss of the last shipper on that portion of the branch, SparTech Poly-Com.  A portion of the line along the west bank of the Passaic River known as the Newark Industrial Track is still used to serve several industries in Newark.
caption: Newark Industrial in Nutley
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