| Lebanon | |||||||||||
| Style: | Reading Company | ||||||||||
| Type: | Former Reading Railroad station | ||||||||||
| Address: | N. 8th St., Lebanon, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 40.3431°N -76.4247°W | ||||||||||
| Tracks: | 2 | ||||||||||
| Opened: | 1900 | ||||||||||
| Closed: | April 28, 1963 | ||||||||||
| Electrified: | No | ||||||||||
| Accessible: | No | ||||||||||
| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||||
| Architect: | Joseph M. Wilson (Wilson Bros) | ||||||||||
| Architectural Style: | Shingle style | ||||||||||
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Lebanon station is a historic train station in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Designed by the Wilson Brothers & Company in the Shingle Style and built by the Reading Company in 1900, it consists of two sections connected by a large overhanging roof. It is located one block north of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Lebanon station.
The smaller section is a 1 1/2-story, rectangular structure that contained a baggage room, telegraph office, and yardmasters' office. It measures 55 ft 6 in by 32 ft 6 in. It has a hipped gable roof with bellcast hiIerpped gable dormers and a two-story octagonal tower.
The larger section is a two-story structure measuring approximately 80 ft 6 in by 32 ft 6 in and contained men's and women's waiting areas and restrooms. It features a large octagonal tower rising 70 80 ft above the station and has a hipped gable roof with hipped gable dormers and a semicircular bay.[1]
In addition to the Reading, the Cornwall Railroad operated passenger trains at the station until the company discontinued passenger service on January 29, 1929.[2] Passenger service on the Reading ended on April 28, 1963.[3]
The station listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Reading Railroad Station in 1975.