The Mercer and Somerset Railway was a short-lived line of the Pennsylvania Railroad in western New Jersey, built to delay completion of the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad, part of the National Railway line (later owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to New York City. A plan existed at one time to extend the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, another railroad being built to block the National Railway, to cross the Delaware River and connect with the M&S.
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| - The Mercer and Somerset Railway was a short-lived line of the Pennsylvania Railroad in western New Jersey, built to delay completion of the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad, part of the National Railway line (later owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to New York City. A plan existed at one time to extend the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, another railroad being built to block the National Railway, to cross the Delaware River and connect with the M&S. (en)
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| - Delaware River
- Predecessors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
- Hopewell, New Jersey
- Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey
- Pennington, New Jersey
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company
- Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad
- Transportation in Somerset County, New Jersey
- Defunct New Jersey railroads
- Railway companies established in 1870
- Montgomery Township, New Jersey
- Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Transportation in Mercer County, New Jersey
- Frog war
- Trenton, New Jersey
- Bankruptcy
- Hillsborough Township, New Jersey
- Railway companies disestablished in 1879
- New Brunswick, New Jersey
- New Jersey
- New York City
- New York Times
- Excursion train
- National Railway
- Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad
- Philadelphia and Reading Railway
- United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Companies
- Belvidere Delaware Rail Road
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| - The Mercer and Somerset Railway was a short-lived line of the Pennsylvania Railroad in western New Jersey, built to delay completion of the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad, part of the National Railway line (later owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to New York City. The railroad ran from on the Belvidere Delaware Rail Road via Pennington and Hopewell to Millstone. A connection to the Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad for a through route to New Brunswick. The bridges over the river and canal at East Millstone were completed by November 22, 1873 by January 10, 1874, the was completed but only a portion open to traffic the line was fully opened to traffic by March 7, 1874. The Mercer & Somerset Railway lost its battle with the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad. Thus, it was bankrupt, defunct and dismantled by 1880. A stone pillar in the middle of the Millstone River just south of Amwell Road still remains today, built as part of the infrastructure to carry the tracks across the river. Hopewell was the site of a frog war with the National Railway. A plan existed at one time to extend the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, another railroad being built to block the National Railway, to cross the Delaware River and connect with the M&S. (en)
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