New Jersey Midland Railway

[2] More successful was the New Jersey Western Railroad, which had built about ten miles of trackage from Hawthorne to Bloomingdale from 1868 to 1870, including the Wortendyke before it was consolidated into the NJ Midland.

[8][9] It joined the Erie Railroad Northern Branch at Granton Junction near Babbit, and reached the community of New Durham (near the point now under New Jersey Route 495 where the Susquehanna Transfer had later been located).

In 1866, public meetings were held in Middletown Westtown and Unionville, New York to discuss the viability of a railroad via these hamlets to Deckertown, Sussex County, New Jersey.

In June 1881 the NJ Midland was consolidated with five other railroads to form the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYS&W) with Frederic A. Potts and Garret Hobart serving as chief officers.

The NYS&W later shifted its mainline to run along the ROW developed by the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway, designating the NJ Midland portion above Sparta Junction the Hanford Branch.

Commuter service ended in 1966, but has been considered for restoration as the part of the Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Project is a project by NJ Transit to possibly reintroduce passenger service on a portion of the NYSW right-of-way (ROW) in Passaic, Bergen and Hudson counties using newly built, FRA-compliant diesel multiple unit rail cars (with stations at Vreeland Avenue and Vince Lombardi Park and Ride, among others.

[15][16][17] Existing original station buildings from the NJ Midland era can be found at Bogota, Maywood, Rochelle Park, Wortendyke, Butler, and Newfoundland among other places.