Perkasie station explained

Perkasie
Style:SEPTA
Style2:SEPTA Former
Type:Former SEPTA regional rail station
Address:8th Street, Perkasie, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Country:USA
Coordinates:40.3744°N -75.2968°W
Operator:North Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Company, Conrail, SEPTA Regional Rail
Line:Bethlehem Branch
Tracks:2
Train Operators:North Pennsylvania Railroad, Reading Company, Conrail, SEPTA Regional Rail
Parking:No
Accessible:No
Closed:July 26, 1981[1]
Electrified:No
Other Services Header:Former services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Perkasie is a defunct train station formerly operated by SEPTA Regional Rail in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA.[2] It closed on July 29, 1981, after SEPTA cancelled its diesel train routes.[3] The station was formerly operated by the Reading Company and later by Conrail and SEPTA. East Penn Railroad operates freight trains on the line between Lansdale, and beyond. However, active track ends just north of Quakertown.

The Perkasie Tunnel is located near the station.[4]

The station was formerly equipped with a water tower, of which not a trace remains. [5]

Lehigh Valley Transit interurbans used a separate station at Walnut and Penn, several blocks to the south and east.[6]

Notes and References

  1. News: SEPTA Cuts Local Service . May 9, 2019 . The Morning Call . July 24, 1981 . Allentown, Pennsylvania . B1, B4. Newspapers.com.
  2. Web site: Official Railway Guide . National Railway Publication Company . 1980.
  3. News: SEPTA Votes to Trim 2 Rail Lines. March 26, 1981 . Philadelphia Daily News . Ken . Lockerby . ... the SEPTA board yesterday voted to cut service on two commuter rail lines. The SEPTA board made the cuts because four of the counties served by the two lines Lehigh, Northampton. Schuylkill and Berks have refused to help subsidize them. As of April 1. unless the counties offer to help SEPTA financially, service will stop on the Quakertown-Bethlehem line to Centre Valley, Hellertown and Bethlehem..
  4. Web site: North Pennsylvania Railroad, Landis Ridge Tunnel . Spivey . Justin M. . April 2001 . Historic American Engineering Record . Library of Congress . Washington, D.C. . 1 . January 30, 2014.
  5. Web site: MEMORIES OF PERKASIE . 2022-06-06 . Perkasie Historical Society . en.
  6. Web site: Liberty Bell Trail Feasibility Study . The Waetzman Planning Group . August 2005 . January 25, 2019 . 50.