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Dock Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places

Amtrak Dock Vertical Lift bridge.

Location	Passaic River Newark - Harrison New Jersey
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1935
Architect	Waddell & Hardesty; Waddell,Dr.J.A.L.
Architectural style	Through-Truss Lift Bridge
NRHP reference No.	80002484
NJRHP No.	1227
Added to NRHP	October 3, 1980
Designated NJRHP	July 21, 1979

Dock Bridge, is a vertical lift bridge built in 1935 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1980. Sometimes known as the Amtrak Dock Vertical Lift, the bridge crosses the Passaic River at Newark and Harrison in northeastern New Jersey and carries Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, and Port Authority Trans Hudson and part of the Northeast Corridor. The bridge is manned.

When built it was an important component in making obsolete the Pennsylvania Railroad's Manhattan Transfer, just east of Newark Penn Station (also opened in 1935),where passengers would change from deisel trains to Exchange Place to electrified trains for New York Penn Station.

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