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Churchville
Churchville
SEPTA regional rail
	Former Churchville Station.
General information
Location	Knowles Avenue and Bustleton PikeBbr>Churchville, Pennsylvania
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	Lua error in Module:Adjacent_stations at line 430: "title" is missing from the data page.
Tracks	1
History
Opened	1892
Closed	1983
Electrified	no
Previous names	Reading Railroad
Services

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Churchville is an abandoned train station located on Knowles Avenue and Bustleton Pike in Churchville, Pennsylvania. The station, built in 1892, was a stop on the Reading Railroad's Newtown Line. It later became a part of SEPTA's R8 Newtown Line.

The station, and all of those north of Fox Chase, was closed in February 1983, due to SEPTA’s desire for all-electric rail operations (electrification ends at the Fox Chase station). Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was "temporarily suspended" at that time, and the Churchville station still appears in publicly posted tariffs. The building has been restored and is now used as a private residence. The former station retains its SEPTA Regional Rail signs that were in use when the station was closed in 1983.

Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light. The traveling public never saw a bus service as a suitable replacement for a rail service, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.

Popular culture

Independent filmmaker Tom Quinn used the Churchville train station in his film Lusting For Dust Words.

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-'''Churchville''' is an abandoned train station located on Knowles Avenue and Bustleton Pike in [[Churchville, Pennsylvania|Churchville]], [[Pennsylvania]]. The station, built in 1892, was a stop on the [[Reading Railroad]]'s Newtown Line.  It later became a part of [[SEPTA]]'s [[R8 (SEPTA)#R8 Fox Chase|R8 Newtown Line]]. The station, and all of those north of [[Fox Chase (SEPTA station)|Fox Chase]], was closed in February 1983, due to SEPTA’s desire for all-electric rail operations (electrification ends at the Fox Chase station). Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was "temporarily suspended" at that time, and the Churchville station still appears in publicly posted tariffs. The building has been restored and is now used as a private residence. The former station retains its SEPTA Regional Rail signs that were in use when the station was closed in 1983.
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+'''Churchville''' is an abandoned train station located on Knowles Avenue and Bustleton Pike in [[Churchville, Pennsylvania|Churchville]], [[Pennsylvania]]. The station, built in 1892, was a stop on the [[Reading Railroad]]'s Newtown Line. It later became a part of [[SEPTA]]'s [[R8 (SEPTA)#R8 Fox Chase|R8 Newtown Line]].
-Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.  The traveling public never saw a bus service as a suitable replacement for a rail service, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.
+The station, and all of those north of [[Fox Chase (SEPTA station)|Fox Chase]], was closed in February 1983, due to SEPTA’s desire for all-electric rail operations (electrification ends at the Fox Chase station). Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was "temporarily suspended" at that time, and the Churchville station still appears in publicly posted tariffs. The building has been restored and is now used as a private residence. The former station retains its SEPTA Regional Rail signs that were in use when the station was closed in 1983.
+Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light. The traveling public never saw a bus service as a suitable replacement for a rail service, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.
 ==Popular culture==
 Independent filmmaker [[Tom Quinn]] used the Churchville train station in his film ''[[Lusting For Dust Words]]''.
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