Newark City Subway

The Newark City Subway in Newark, New Jersey is operated by New Jersey Transit. It is 4.3 miles long, and is actually an underground trolley car line which goes aboveground away from downtown (this is known as "subway-surface" or "subsurface"). The Newark City Subway is also known as the #7 line.

The line was built 1935–1937 using the old Morris Canal right-of-way. WPA artists decorated the underground stations with art-deco scenes from life on the defunct Morris Canal. It was originally operated by the Public Service Company. NJ Transit took over in 1980. For many years, PCC streetcars bought from Twin City Rapid Transit were running on the route. The cars had been built 1946–1949 by the St. Louis Car Company and were sold by TCRT when that system went through a conversion to buses. In 2001, new light rail cars built by Kinki-Sharyo in Japan in 1999 replaced the PCCs.

The line purchased a fleet of 30 PCC cars in the 1950s. Four were scrapped over the years, and two were sold off to Shaker Heights Rapid Transit in 1978. Some of the PCCs are currently stored in the Newark City Subway shop, where they may go to museums. Fifteen have been sold to the San Francisco Municipal Railway's Market Street Railway, which runs a system of historic streetcars. One of the Shaker Heights cars has been restored by the Minnesota Transportation Museum, which operates it on a short stretch of track in western Minneapolis. Some people in Minneapolis have hoped that some of the remaining cars may also return to that city to run on a proposed streetcar line on the Midtown Greenway, but such a project is not likely to begin anytime soon as of 2004.

In 2002, the Newark City Subway was extended to the suburbs of Belleville, Nutley, and Bloomfield.

The fare is $1.10, and there is a .50 surcharge for the Downtown Fare that is applicable from Penn Station to the Warren Street Station. Passengers must buy tickets before boarding (previously, cash fares were paid on board).