The Newark and Roselle Railway was incorporated on Aug 28, 1889 by the

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(LVRR) to advance tracks from the terminus of the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway at Roselle, New Jersey to Pennsylvania Avenue in

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. It formed part of the route connecting the LVRR's Easton and Amboy Railroad at South Plainfield to the Jersey City terminal. Initially, the Roselle and South Plainfield Railroad had connected with the

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(CNJ) at Roselle, and LVRR trains had proceeded to Jersey City over the CNJ. In 1891 the LVRR consolidated the railroads along the Jersey City route into the

Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway The Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway was a Lehigh Valley Railroad company organized in 1891 through the consolidation of the companies that formed the Lehigh Valley's route from South Plainfield through Newark to Jersey City via its bridge acr ...

. Along with the Newark and Roselle, the other consolidated companies were the Roselle and South Plainfield Railway, the Newark and Passaic Railway, the

Newark Railway The Newark Railway was incorporated on December 10, 1890, and was a short, 1-mile connection between the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Newark and Roselle Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). Upon completion on Feb 16, 1891, all passenger tr ...

, the Jersey City, Newark, and Western Railway, the

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, and the Edgewater Railway.

References

* Annual Report of the State Board of Assessors of the State of New Jersey, State Printers, 1890, p. 62
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* ''News about Railroads'', New York Times, Aug 27, 1891 {{DEFAULTSORT:Newark Roselle Railway Predecessors of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Defunct New Jersey railroads Railway companies established in 1889 Railway companies disestablished in 1891 1889 establishments in New Jersey