Huntingdon Valley (SEPTA station)
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Huntingdon Valley
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| Former SEPTA regional rail station | ||||||||||||||||
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Dormant tracks and a private residence near the former site of Huntingdon Valley station.
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| Location | 796 Welsh Road Lower Moreland, PA |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 0 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | station shed (demolished) | |||||||||||||||
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| Closed | January 14, 1983 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | No | |||||||||||||||
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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 (PA 63) in Lower Moreland, Pennsylvania, not far from the Pennypack Creek. The former station shelter was demolished 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 in summer 2014 for construction of the $2 million Pennypack Trail extension.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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.
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- ↑ http://www.septa.org/about/board/agenda-12-10-13.pdf SEPTA Board meeting minutes; December 10, 2013
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