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'''Huntingdon Valley''' is a closed train station located along [[SEPTA]]'s [[Fox Chase/Newtown Line]], located on Terwood Road near Old Welsh Road ([[Pennsylvania State Route 63|PA 63]]) in [[Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania|Lower Moreland]], [[Pennsylvania]], not far from the [[Pennypack Creek]].
'''Huntingdon Valley''' is a closed train station located along [[SEPTA]]'s [[Fox Chase/Newtown Line]], located on Terwood Road near Old Welsh Road ([[Pennsylvania State Route 63|PA 63]]) in [[Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania|Lower Moreland]], [[Pennsylvania]], not far from the [[Pennypack Creek]].


==History==
==History==
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Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown [[Bustitution|shuttle bus]], patronage remained light, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.
Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown [[Bustitution|shuttle bus]], patronage remained light, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.


Plans call for surviving trackage to be removed by Montgomery County by summer 2014 in order to extended the Pennypack Trail.<ref name=trailext>{{cite web|last=Nussbaum|first=Paul|accessdate=April 21, 2014|title=Montco plans to convert more of rail line for recreation|publisher=''Philadelphia Inquirer''|date=March 23, 2014 |url=http://articles.philly.com/2014-03-23/news/48471219_1_rail-line-septa-spokeswoman-jerri-williams-rail-service}}</ref><ref>http://www.septa.org/about/board/agenda-12-10-13.pdf SEPTA Board meeting minutes; December 10, 2013</ref>|[[Image: HV leyland wyc.jpg|thumb|A BRE Rail-bus being tested on the Newtown Branch at Huntingdon Valley on September 10, 1985]]
==Infringement==
[[Image: HV leyland wyc.jpg|thumb|A BRE Rail-bus being tested on the Newtown Branch at Huntingdon Valley on September 10, 1985]]

Currently, the stone driveway of a car wash infringes upon the line at the site of the former station. SEPTA dismantled all trackage, signals and station platforms in the area. The station shelter - dating from the 1950s - was demolished by SEPTA in the late 1980s. The SEPTA "lollipop" station sign was removed in March 2011.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 20:32, 10 May 2014

Huntingdon Valley
SEPTA regional rail
Dormant tracks and a private residence near the former site of Huntindgon Valley station.
General information
Location796 Welsh Road
Lower Moreland, PA
Coordinates40°07′16″N 75°04′22″W / 40.1210°N 75.0729°W / 40.1210; -75.0729
Owned bySEPTA
Line(s)
  Fox Chase Line
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks0
Construction
Structure typestation shed (demolished)
History
ClosedJanuary 14, 1983
ElectrifiedNo
Previous namesReading Railroad
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
(closed 1983)
Template:SEPTA lines
Newtown
(closed 1983)

Huntingdon Valley is a closed train station located along SEPTA's Fox Chase/Newtown Line, located on Terwood Road near Old Welsh Road (PA 63) in Lower Moreland, Pennsylvania, not far from the Pennypack Creek. The former station shelter in the late 1980s. The SEPTA "lollipop" station sign was removed in March 2011.

History

Huntingdon Valley Station, and all of those north of Fox Chase, was closed on January 14, 1983, due to failing diesel train equipment SEPTA had no desire to repair.[1]

In addition, a labor dispute began within the SEPTA organization when the transit operator inherited 1,700 displaced employees from Conrail. SEPTA insisted on utilizing transit operators from the Broad Street Subway to operate Fox Chase-Newtown diesel trains, while Conrail requested that railroad motormen run the service. When a federal court ruled that SEPTA had to use Conrail employees in order to offer job assurance, SEPTA cancelled Fox Chase-Newtown trains.[2] Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was cancelled at that time, and Huntingdon Valley Station still appears in publicly posted tariffs.[3]

Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.

Plans call for surviving trackage to be removed by Montgomery County by summer 2014 in order to extended the Pennypack Trail.[4][5]|

A BRE Rail-bus being tested on the Newtown Branch at Huntingdon Valley on September 10, 1985

References

  1. ^ "Newtown Branch History". Southampton, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Transit Expansion Coalition. 2010. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  2. ^ Tulsky, Fredric N. (January 29, 1982). "Conrail Staff Must Run Trains: court ruling bars SEPTA takeover". Philadelphia Inquirer. SEPTA must use Conrail workers rather than its own personnel to run trains over the region's 13 commuter lines, a special federal court has ruled in a decision that offers some job assurance for 1,700 Conrail employees next year. The special court, in an opinion issued Wednesday, ruled that SEPTA had acted legally in October when it replaced Conrail workers with its former subway operators on the line.
  3. ^ "Tariff No. 154 - Supplement No. 37" (PDF). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. March 6, 2009. pp. 4–7. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  4. ^ Nussbaum, Paul (March 23, 2014). "Montco plans to convert more of rail line for recreation". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved April 21, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ http://www.septa.org/about/board/agenda-12-10-13.pdf SEPTA Board meeting minutes; December 10, 2013
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