Pottstown station explained

Pottstown
Style:SEPTA
Style2:SEPTA Former
Type:Charles W. Dickinson Transportation Center
Colebrookdale Railroad heritage railroad station
PART bus terminal
Former SEPTA regional rail station
Address:High Street between Hanover and York Streets, Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Closed:July 26, 1981[1]
Connections:Schuylkill River Trail
 PART bus lines
 SEPTA 93 to Norristown
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Other Services Header:Former services
Nrhp:
Embed:yes
Reading Railroad Pottstown Station
Coordinates:40.2447°N -75.6525°W
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:bus
Marker-Color:
  1. 000
Zoom:14
Built:1928
Architect:Dillenbeck, Clark
Architecture:Classical Revival
Added:January 12, 1984
Refnum:84003514

The Pottstown station, now referred to as the Charles W. Dickinson Transportation Center,[2] is a bus terminal of the Pottstown Area Rapid Transit system. It is located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.[3]

History and notable features

The station was built in 1928 as a train station for the Reading Railroad and was active long enough to be served by SEPTA diesel service trains until 1981.[4] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1984, as the Reading Railroad Pottstown Station, and is located in the Old Pottstown Historic District, close to the Schuylkill River Trail.[5] [6] [7]

The station was designed in the Classical Revival style by the railroad's engineering staff, rather than by an outside architect. Stations built in the nineteenth century by the Reading Railroad had usually been designed by outside architects, including Frank Furness.

During the twentieth century, the railroad became less profitable and most stations were designed in simpler styles in-house.[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Rail Service Marks End of an Era . February 4, 2020 . The News Herald . July 29, 1981 . . 1. Newspapers.com.
  2. "Dialogue" (terminal clock photo with caption). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 19, 2014, p. A23 (subscription required).
  3. "Motor Buses from Reading to Philadelphia." Shenandoah, Pennsylvania: Evening Herald, August 14, 1929, p. 5 (subscription required).
  4. Heavens, Alan J. "Borough still awaiting its comeback." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2014, pp. D01-D02 (subscription required).
  5. Web site: Mintz. Elizabeth. [{{NRHP-PA|H064347_01H.pdf}} Reading Railroad - Pottstown Station]. National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. December 24, 2013. 1983.
  6. "Reading Co. Prepares for Bus Traffic." Shenandoah, Pennsylvania: Evening Herald, April 25, 1928, p. 3 (subscription required).
  7. "Motor Buses from Reading to Philadelphia", Evening Herald, August 14, 1929.