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PATH Lift Bridge
PATH Lift Bridge (Harsimus Branch and Wittpenn Bridge at right)
Coordinates	40°44′24″N 74°04′59″W / 40.740108°N 74.083048°W / 40.740108; -74.083048
Carries	PATH
Crosses	Hackensack River
Locale	Connecting Kearny and Jersey City, New Jersey
Owner	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Characteristics
Design	Lift bridge
Material	Steel
History
Opened	1900; 125 years ago (1900)
Location

The PATH Lift is a lift bridge carrying the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) rapid transit line across the Hackensack River between Kearny and Jersey City, New Jersey. It is used by PATH trains going to and from Newark.

History

The bridge was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1900. It was part of the PRR main line that terminated at Exchange Place in Jersey City. Upon the opening of the PRR North River Tunnels to Manhattan's Penn Station in 1910, the main line traffic was routed on a new alignment to the tunnels, and the Exchange Place line tracks were made available to the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, a rapid transit line to lower Manhattan (later called PATH). Service on a new H&M line between the Manhattan Transfer station in Harrison, New Jersey and lower Manhattan began on October 1, 1911. The service was later extended southward to Newark.

Use of the bridge was shared by the PRR and H&M until PRR closed Exchange Place in 1961. Since that time, it has been used solely by H&M/PATH trains on the Newark–World Trade Center line (known as Newark-Hudson Terminal before 1971).

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
• List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey
• List of crossings of the Hackensack River

References

1. Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. "PRR Chronology, 1900." March 2005 Edition.
2. "Improved Transit Facilities by Newark High Speed Line" (PDF). New York Times. October 1, 1911.
3. Cudahy, Brian J. (2002), Rails Under the Mighty Hudson (2nd ed.), New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 62–63, ISBN 978-0-82890-257-1, OCLC 911046235

External links

• Media related to PATH Lift Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NJ-44, "PATH Transit System Bridge"
• PATH Bridge at Structurae

Crossings of the Hackensack River
Upstream Harsimus Branch Lift Bridge Conrail PATH Lift Bridge Downstream Pulaski Skyway

v t e PATH
Services	NWK–WTC   HOB–WTC   HOB–33   JSQ–33    JSQ–33 via HOB
Stations	Exchange Place Grove Street Harrison Hoboken Journal Square Newark Newport Christopher Street Ninth Street 14th Street 23rd Street 33rd Street World Trade Center
Infrastructure	Dock Bridge Downtown Hudson Tubes PATH Lift Bridge Uptown Hudson Tubes
Historical/Former	Centre Street Bridge Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse Hudson Terminal Manhattan Transfer Park Place
Fares	SmartLink MetroCard OMNY (future)
Related	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

• Bridges completed in 1900
• PATH (rail system)
• Bridges over the Hackensack River
• Pennsylvania Railroad bridges
• Railroad bridges in New Jersey
• Vertical lift bridges in New Jersey
• Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
• Bridges in Hudson County, New Jersey
• Buildings and structures in Jersey City, New Jersey
• Kearny, New Jersey
• Steel bridges in the United States
• 1900 establishments in New Jersey