1912 WEST JERSEY SEASHORE RAILROAD COMPANY ANNUAL REPORT w/RR LINES STATION MAP!

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HERE’S A RARE 1912 NEW JERSEY RAILROAD MAP/REPORT BOOK TITLED:
“West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company. Seventeenth Annual Report, for the Year Ended 1912
Published by Allen, Lane & Scott, Philadelphia, 1912
About this Item:
Quarto sized in printed wraps, 26pp. Complete. VERY FINE. The first page of the volume contains a Map showing the railroads system and station connections. The remaining pages list the Directors and Officers of the RR, and detailed financial information.
The West Jersey and Seashore resulted from an 1896 action by the Pennsylvania Railroad to consolidate all of its smaller lines in the area of southern west New Jersey, south Jersey and the Pine Barrens, including the Camden and Atlantic City, Millville and Glassboro, Salem, Swedesboro and others. It operated under that name until 1933.
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West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
System map (West Jersey and Seashore Railroad lines in red, Atlantic City Railroad lines in purple)
The
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
(WJ&S) was a
Pennsylvania Railroad
subsidiary in the
State
of
New Jersey
with a connection to
Philadelphia
. It was formed through the merger of several smaller roads in May 1896. At the end of 1925 it operated 379 miles (610 km) of road on 717 miles (1,154 km) of track; that year it reported 166 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 332 million passenger-miles. The railroad became part of
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
in 1933.
History
Electric traction was used on the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad, 1906
On May 4, 1896, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) consolidated all its railroads and several smaller properties in southern New Jersey into the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad (WJ&S). This included the West Jersey Railroad, the
Alloway and Quinton Railroad
, the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, the
Chelsea Branch Railroad
, and the Philadelphia, Marlton and Medford Railroad. The consolidation was originally scheduled to occur in March 1896, but at a meeting held on March 21, it was agreed that there was not enough time given for proxy votes to arrive from stockholders who were not local to New Jersey; the deadline for proxies was then extended to April 6, 1896. Representatives of each of the constituent lines met on May 2, 1896, and all agreed to the merger, to become effective as soon as paperwork could be filed in Trenton.
The WJ&S, as a subsidiary of the PRR, had two lines coming from its Federal Street Terminal in Camden, New Jersey:
The Main Line to Atlantic City and to other shore points via Winslow Junction using trackage rights on ACRR's Cape May Branch to Woodbine Junction and its Cape May line to Ocean City, Wildwood and Cape May.
The Millville Line via Woodbury to Millville and splitting off at Newfield to Atlantic City was
electrified
with 650 V DC third rail and overhead wire.
A line branching off at Millville
Branches going to Salem, and Deep Water Point from Woodbury and Bridgeton from Glassboro.
On October 28, 1906, an
accident in Atlantic City
killed 53 people when a three-car train plunged off an open
swing bridge
.
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The
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
(WJ&S) as a subsidiary of the
Pennsylvania Railroad
. From report for the year ending December 31, 1905:
Cooper's Point, Camden to Atlantic City - 58.73 miles.(
Camden and Atlantic Railroad
)
Camden, South of Haddon Ave. station to Cape May - 80.84 miles. (
West Jersey Railroad
)
Woodbury to Penns Grove - 19 99 miles.(DR)
Woodbury to Salem - 28.39 miles. (
Salem Railroad
,
Woodstown and Swedesboro Railroad
,
Swedesboro Railroad
)
Riddleton Junction to Elmer - 10.38 miles.(
Salem Railroad
)
Alloway Junction to Quinton - 4.22 miles. (
Alloway and Quinton Railroad
)
917 feet north of Salem station to 1,580 feet south of Broadway, Salem - 1.27 miles.
Glassboro to Bridgeton - 19.68 miles.
Main St., North of old passenger station to Pearl and Lemon St., Bridgeton - 1.67 miles.
Newfield to the junction with Atlantic City Division (C&A), near Atlantic City - 32.60 miles. (
West Jersey and Atlantic Railroad
)
Pleasantville to Somers Point - 7.14 miles. (P&OC)
Manumuskin to Maurice River, opposite Port Norris - 9.76 miles. (
Maurice River Railroad
)
Sea Isle Junction to Second St. pier, Ocean City - 16.47 miles.
Sea Isle City to Stone Harbor - 9.14 miles.
Anglesea Junction to Holly Beach - 7.24 miles.
Haddonfield to Medford - 11.95 miles. (PM&M)
Junction at Atlantic City Drawbridge to junction with Atlantic Ave. branch, South of Providence Ave. - 1.23 miles.
Absecon Inlet to 158 feet North of Albany Ave., Atlantic City - 3.04 miles.
Junction 158 feet North of Albany Ave., Atlantic City to Longport - 5.49 miles.
Total owned and operated: 329.23 miles.
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