![]() Later in 1860 the main line was opened as far as Lakewood. This first section included what would remain the two largest engineering works on the line: the long pier at Port Monmouth and the Navesink River bridge at Red Bank. Summer service in the first year was three train and boat trips per day in each direction. It was the first railroad to reach Long Branch. The first segment opened in June 1860 ran south via Red Bank as far as Eatontown and then by a branch running east to the resort town of Long Branch on the shore. Ĭonstruction began in 1858 from Port Monmouth on Raritan Bay. ![]() The man behind it was William A Torrey, who owned 43 square miles (110 km 2) in the area of present-day Lakehurst. It was to form part of a rail and water route from the New York City area to the Norfolk, Virginia area. The R&DB was chartered to construct a railroad from the Raritan Bay to Cape Island (Cape May), near the outlet of the Delaware Bay. The New Jersey Southern Railroad (NJS) began life as the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad Company (R&DB), in March 1854. It would continue under this name until the 1870s as a separate company and the lines that it had constructed or run continued to be run in the New Jersey Southern name until the early 2000s. The New Jersey Southern Railroad was a railroad that started in 1854.
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