Harrison Cut-off

The Harrison Cut-off (also called the "Kingsland-Harrison Bypass", "Kingsland Branch", "Kingsland Cutoff", and "Harrison-Kingsland Branch", as described in the Kearny Vision Plan document) is a substantially abandoned north–south rail line constructed by the Lackawanna Railroad running between Lyndhurst, New Jersey and Harrison, New Jersey and currently owned by NJ Transit.

It formerly connected to the Lackawanna Boonton Branch (currently, the NJ Transit Main Line) via the Kingsland Shops near the Kingsland station in Lyndhurst, and to the Morris & Essex Railroad (currently, the Morris & Essex Lines at an unnamed junction west of Kearny Junction near the border of Harrison and Kearny, New Jersey.[1][2]

It provided a shorter route than going all the way to West End Junction for M&E trains to access the Kingsland shops.

In 2007, Kearny hired the Regional Plan Association to create a proposal to the state of New Jersey to reactivate the line and build a transit village for Kearny, restoring service to the town that had been lost in 2002 with the closure of the DB Draw switching service on the Boonton Line from the former Erie Greenwood Lake to use the DL&W Montclair Branch.[3]

Norfolk Southern (and its predecessor Conrail) occasionally delivered freight to industrial customers at the north and south ends of the line.

References
  1. Railway Signaling and Communications. Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation. 1922.
  2. Railway Signal Engineer. Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company. 1922.
  3. "Kearny Vision Plan" (PDF). NJ State transportation planning. Regional Plan Association. 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2022-03-06.


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