Rail

Effective Wednesday, March 26, between the hours of 10AM and 12PM, elevator P1A (tracks 1 and 2), elevator P2A (tracks 3 and 4), elevator P3A (tracks 5 and 6), and elevator P4A (tracks 7 and 8) will be out of service sequentially due to inspection.

During this outage, staircases and escalators will be available to customers. Customers requiring ADA assistance can utilize the elevators on the 8th Avenue (West) end of the platform.

Effective Thursday, March 27, between the hours of 10AM and 12PM, elevator P5A (tracks 9 and 10), elevator P6A (tracks 11 and 12), and elevator P7A (31st Street) will be out of service sequentially due to inspection.

During this outage, staircases and escalators will be available to customers. Customers requiring ADA assistance can utilize the elevators on the 8th Avenue (West) end of the platform.

On Saturday, April 12, from 6AM until 9PM, Raritan Valley Line trains will be replaced by NJ TRANSIT buses between Cranford and Newark to support track maintenance on Conrail’s Lehigh Line.

Effective Monday, March 24, customers traveling from Hackettstown, Mount Olive, Netcong, Lake Hopatcong, and Mount Arlington affected by the ongoing emergency repair work on I-80 will not need to purchase a fare when boarding trains. Customers at these stations should inform the train crew if they are transferring at Newark Broad Street Station or Summit Station to continue their trip to Penn Station New York. They will receive a transfer ticket to present to the crew on the connecting train.

Beginning on Friday, April 4 at 10PM until Monday, April 21 at 5AM, trains will be arriving and departing from different tracks than usual due to overhead wire maintenance near Newark Penn Station.

Effective Monday, April 7, through Friday, April 18, Raritan Valley Line trains will operate on a modified weekday schedule to accommodate critical Amtrak overhead wire work. The work being performed by Amtrak is part of a series of state-of-good-repair work on overhead wires on the Northeast Corridor in advance of the summer months that will help ensure reliability for Amtrak and NJ TRANSIT customers traveling to and from New York.

Effective Monday, April 7, through Friday, April 18, Secaucus Junction connections for certain Main Line and Pascack Valley Line trains will be changed due to Amtrak catenary work.

Affected Westbound Main Line Trains:

Beginning 10:00 PM on Friday, May 16 and continuing until 5:00 AM on Monday, May 19, trains will not have level detraining/boarding available on Track 1 (to Newark/New York) at Princeton Junction and Hamilton stations due to Amtrak track work.

During this time, trains at these stations will arrive and depart from Track 2, and customers will use platform extensions for level boarding and detraining.

Beginning Monday, March 31 and continuing on weekdays through Friday, April 4, from 9:30 until 3PM each day, eastbound trains between Garwood and Newark Penn Station/Penn Station New York will be subject to delays between 5-10 minutes due to track maintenance. 

Delays of up to 25 minutes possible

On the following weekends in April, each day from approximately 7AM until approximately 7PM, North Jersey Coast Line trains traveling westbound (to Bay Head) may be subject to delays of up to 25 minutes at Point Pleasant Beach and Bay Head due to electrical work: