NJ Transit is the simplest of the four networks to price and the hardest for this site to cover completely. This guide explains both.
Distance, not time of day
A rail fare is set by the distance between the origin and destination. The same price applies on every train: there is no peak surcharge, no off-peak discount and no difference between weekday and weekend. That is why an NJ Transit trip page shows one fare where an LIRR page shows two, and why the direction paragraph says the time of day does not change the price.
NJ Transit's schedule data carries zone numbers, but they are internal identifiers rather than the fare zones a rider sees, so this site does not print them.
Ticket types
One-way and round-trip tickets are the basic fare. Ten-trip tickets, weekly passes and monthly passes are sold for the same origin and destination and bring the per-ride price down for regular travel; where a line timetable prints those prices this site shows them on the trip page. Tickets are sold in the NJ Transit app and at station ticket machines. If a machine was available where you boarded, buying on board costs extra.
Reduced fares
Up to two children under five ride free with a fare-paying adult. Older children, seniors and riders with disabilities pay a reduced fare; NJ Transit's own site sets out the ID required.
Why some pages have no fare
NJ Transit publishes its rail fares in the fare tables printed in each line's timetable rather than in one machine-readable chart. This site reads those tables, checks every value against the operator's own price ratios, and drops any row that fails the check rather than guessing a correction. That process has left gaps: where a trip page shows service and times but no fare, the fare has not yet been loaded, not that the trip is free. Coverage grows as timetables are added.
Reaching Manhattan
Trains on the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast, Morris & Essex, Montclair-Boonton and Gladstone lines run into New York Penn Station. The Main, Bergen County, Pascack Valley, Port Jervis and most Raritan Valley trains end at Hoboken or Newark, with a change at Secaucus Junction or Newark Penn Station for Manhattan. See NJ Transit or PATH into Manhattan for how the two compare.
Updated 21 Sep 2026 · operator fare rules and schedule feeds
NJ Transit prices a rail ticket on the distance between your origin and destination. The fare is the same on every train: there is no peak surcharge and no off-peak discount, so the one-way price shown here is the price at 8 AM on a Tuesday and at noon on a Sunday. The zone numbers that appear in NJ Transit's own data are internal identifiers, not something printed on a ticket, so this site does not show them.
One-way, round-trip, ten-trip, weekly and monthly tickets are sold in the NJ Transit app and at station ticket machines. If a machine was available where you boarded, buying on board costs extra. Children under five ride free with a fare-paying adult, older children and seniors ride at a reduced rate, and disabled riders ride at a reduced rate with the relevant ID.
Where this site has no fare for an NJ Transit pair, it is because that fare has not yet been loaded from the timetable it is printed in, not because the trip is free. The fare tables are read from NJ Transit's published line timetables, and every value is checked against the operator's own price ratios before it is shown.