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 | | The opening to public service of Pennsylvania Station, Newark, on Sunday, March 24, 1935, marks the consummation of the first of three major steps in the extensive program of improvements which the City of Newark and the Pennsylvania Railroad are jointly engaged in carrying out, at an estimated total cost of approximately $42,000,000. |
 | | In addition to replacing the old station as Newark's principal rail center for passenger traffic, it will, with the elimination of Manhattan Transfer, become the Newark transfer station of the rapid transit lines to downtown New York, and their connecting point with the through trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad. |
 | | Inauguration of service at the new station at this time is particularly impressive by reason of being linked with the establishment of through passenger train electrification between New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, with materially faster schedules planned for the near future and dedication of the freight service soon to follow. |
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