A tentative deal has been reached to end a New Jersey rail strike by raising wages of workers whose picketing halted the country’s third-largest transit system.

New Jersey Transit trains will begin operating again on Monday after the agency reached a deal with striking rail engineers on wage increases, the engineers' union said on Sunday, ending a three-day work stoppage that affected about 350,

An agreement was reached on Sunday to end New Jersey’s first statewide transit strike in more than 40 years just three days after it started, two people close to the negotiations said.