Port Jervis Line

Port Jervis Line

The Metro-North Railroad Port Jervis Line is a predominantly single-track commuter rail line running from Suffern, New York, to Port Jervis. At Suffern, the line continues south into New Jersey as New Jersey Transit's Main Line.

New Jersey Transit provides service on the sections of the lines in New York State via a working agreement with Metro-North. This includes trains along the Port Jervis extension of the line with 13 New York-bound and 14 Port Jervis-bound trains on weekdays, and nine trains in each direction on weekends. Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) shares use of this track for local freight operations between Suffern and Port Jervis. The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway operates over the line between Hudson Junction (east of Campbell Hall) and Port Jervis, and onward to Binghamton over the former Erie's Delaware Division. The tracks have been owned by NS since the 1999 split of Conrail, but were built by the New York and Erie Rail Road and incorporated into Conrail on its formation on April 1, 1976. Metro-North leased the entire line from NS in 2003, with the possibility of outright purchase after 2006. MNR immediately began a substantial track and signal improvement program, in order to provide more reliable and comfortable service.

The Port Jervis line runs through some of the most remote and rural country found on the Metro-North system, and includes both its longest bridge and longest tunnel.