Editing Newark Light Rail (section)

===Bloomfield extension===
[[File:Heller Parkway Station - Feb 2015.jpg|left|thumb|The former Heller Parkway station in February 2015]]
On June 22, 2002, the Newark City Subway was extended to the suburbs of [[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]] and [[Bloomfield, New Jersey|Bloomfield]] along what had been the former [[Erie Railroad]] Orange Branch, now under [[Norfolk Southern]] ownership. New stations were opened at [[Silver Lake station|Silver Lake]] and [[Grove Street station (Newark Light Rail)|Grove Street]], and the Heller Parkway and Franklin Avenue stations were combined into a new Branch Brook Park station. The loop at Franklin Avenue was removed, since the new vehicles are bidirectional, unlike the old PCCs. A new loop, however, is in place at the Grove Street facility. All the street crossings on the extension are [[grade crossing|at-grade]].<ref>Staff. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10FCAB7BCA54C298&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Subway extension to open in summer, Newark officials hope that the $207.7 million downtown project will help spur a renaissance."], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', February 13, 2006. Accessed July 18, 2011. "The last major expansion of the 4.3 mile subway in 2002 brought the service into the neighboring cities of Belleville and Bloomfield."</ref>

====Shared-track operation====
The original agreement gave sole operating privileges to Norfolk Southern between 11&nbsp;pm and 5&nbsp;am daily, but a new agreement allows passenger service to operate at all hours, with late-night service commencing on January 8, 2005. In exchange, Norfolk Southern can now operate during all off-peak hours, when passenger trains are infrequent.