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Jersey City Branch

Pennsylvania Railroad Station
sketch of vast station building and feryy operation
Pennsylvania Railroad's Jersey City Station, 1893
Coordinates 40°42′59″N 74°01′57″W / 40.71648°N 74.03238°W / 40.71648; -74.03238Coordinates: 40°42′59″N 74°01′57″W / 40.71648°N 74.03238°W / 40.71648; -74.03238
Operated by Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
Connections US Passenger rail transport ferry/water interchange
History
Opened 1834 (1834)
Closed 1961 (1961)
Services
Preceding station   Pennsylvania Railroad   Following station
toward Chicago
Main Line Terminus
New York and Long Branch Railroad
Location
Pennsylvania Railroad Station is located in New York City Railroads
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
Location on a map showing the railroads on the Hudson Waterfront ca 1900

The Pennsylvania Railroad Station was the intermodal passenger terminal for the Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR) vast holdings on the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay in Jersey City, New Jersey. By the 1920s the station was called Exchange Place in response to local nomenclature. The rail terminal and its ferry slips were the main New York City station for the railroad until the opening in 1910 of New York Penn Station, made possible by the construction of the North River Tunnels. The terminal was located on Paulus Hook, which in 1812 became the landing of the first steam ferry service in the world, and to which rail service began in 1834. Train service to the station ended in November 1961 and demolition of the building complex was completed in 1963. Part of the former terminal complex is now the PATH system's Exchange Place Station.

The station was one of five passenger railroad terminals that lined the western shore of the Hudson River during the 19th and 20th centuries, the others being Weehawken, Hoboken, Pavonia, and Communipaw. The PRR referred to the location simply as "Jersey City," and if necessary to distinguish it from other railroads' terminals, as the Pennsylvania station.


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