 From 1879, the line was owned by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ), which used it as their Southern Division, which, at its greatest extent, ran from Red Bank to the shores of the Delaware Bay at Bivalve and Bayside.The line hosted the CNJ's famous passenger train the Blue Comet from 1929 to 1941.The line prospered into the 1940s when, like all American rail lines and the railroads that owned them, entered a period of decline.