Editing Mannington Township, New Jersey (section)

===Transportation===
[[File:2021-05-05 16 39 35 View east along Salem County Route 540 (Pointers-Auburn Road) at New Jersey State Route 45 (Salem-Woodstown Road) in Mannington Township, Salem County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|Road sign on [[County Route 540 (New Jersey)|County Route 540]] at the Pointers]]

====Roads and highways====
{{As of|2010|5}}, the township had a total of {{convert|69.40|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|30.42|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|32.36|mi}} by Salem County and {{convert|6.62|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Salem.pdf Salem County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed July 18, 2014.</ref>

[[New Jersey Route 45]] (Salem-Woodstown Road) is the main highway serving Mannington Township. [[County Route 540 (New Jersey)|County Route 540]] (Pointers Auburn Road) also traverses the township. Their convergence with Pointers Sharptown Road ([[County Route 620 (Salem County, New Jersey)|County Route 620]]) is named Pointers, or the Pointers, which "pointed" toward [[Salem, New Jersey|Salem]].
<ref>{{cite web |title=Local Names |publisher=State of New Jersey |url=http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/localnames.txt |access-date=January 4, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/books/salemnames/|title=West Jersey History Project - Place Names of Salem County N.J. by Josephine Jaquett and Elmer VanName|website=www.westjerseyhistory.org |quote = The juncture of highways north of Salem where the road divides to Woodstown, Sharptown and Penn's Neck.}}</ref><ref name="NJGPP">{{cite book |title=New Jersey, a Guide to Its Present and Past | publisher = Viking |year=1939 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t6wmzEJvTGcC&pg=PA631 |page=631 |isbn=9781603540292}}</ref><ref name = NJDOT>{{cite web  |title = NJDOT Graphic Information System Maps Salem |publisher = New Jersey Department of Transportation|url = https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/gis/maps/Salem.pdf |access-date = March 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title = Acts of the General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey|publisher = New Jersey Legislature
|year = 1852 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ai9AAQAAMAAJ&dq=Woodstown%2C+Sharpstown%2C+and+Sculltown+pointers+roads&pg=PA334|accessdate = March 21, 2022 |quote= ...''the junction of the roads from Woodstown, Sharpstown, and Sculltown to Salem (commonly called the Pointers)''...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Caton |first1=Philip B. |last2=Specca |first2=Lisa Y. |title=Comprehensive Farmland Preservation Plan |publisher=Mannington Township |date=2010 |url=http://www.manningtontwp.com/pdfs/2013_0506_FarmlandPreservationPlan.pdf }}</ref>

====Public transportation====
[[NJ Transit]] provides bus service between [[Salem, New Jersey|Salem]] and [[Philadelphia]] on the [[401 (New Jersey bus)|401]], with local service between [[Penns Grove, New Jersey|Penns Grove]] and [[Woodstown, New Jersey|Woodstown]] offered on the [[468 (New Jersey bus)|468]] route.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100128140056/http://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=BusRoutesSalemCountyTo Salem County Bus / Rail Connections], [[NJ Transit]], backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of January 28, 2010. Accessed January 16, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.driveless.com/pdfs/SJTG_PDF.pdf#page=3 South Jersey Transit Guide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929093448/http://www2.driveless.com/pdfs/SJTG_PDF.pdf#page=3 |date=2018-09-29 }}, Cross County Connection, as of April 1, 2010. Accessed September 30, 2014.</ref>

====Freight rail====
Once also providing passenger service, the {{convert|18.6|mi}} southern portion of the freight rail [[Salem Branch]] operated under contract by [[Southern Railroad of New Jersey]] runs through Mannington, with Mannington Mills being one of the short line's major customers.<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=0EB5CE0866B923A6&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Short Lines, Long History \ Little Railroads Once Flourished. Now, They Live Again."], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', April 20, 1999. Accessed September 23, 2013. "And now the 18-mile stretch of aging track through woods and farmland is a branch of the Southern Railroad Co. of New Jersey, one of the largest short lines in the state.... On the Salem branch, the railroad picks up loaded freight cars in Swedesboro and delivers such things as crushed limestone to Mannington Mills, a floor-tile maker, and soda ash to Anchor Glass in Salem County."</ref><ref>Young, Alex. [http://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2015/04/salem_county_awards_contract_to_replace_oldmans_tr.html "Salem County awards contract to replace Oldman's Trestle railroad bridge"], [[NJ.com]], April 3, 2015. Accessed October 31, 2016. "The work is all part of the long-term plan to upgrade the Salem County short line railroad in order to bring the dated track back up to standard and benefit local industry. The rail line starts at the port of Salem and travels north through Mannington, Woodstown and Pilesgrove before crossing the Gloucester County line and going on to Swedesboro."</ref>