Quakertown station explained

Quakertown

Style:

SEPTA

Style2:

SEPTA Former

Type:

Former SEPTA regional rail station

Line:

Bethlehem Line

Levels:

Tracks:

2 (originally 3)

Parking:

Yes

Website:

quakertowntrainstation.org

Closed:

July 26, 1981^[1]

Electrified:

Accessible:

Owned:

Quakertown Train Station Historical Society

Other Services Header:

Former services

Nrhp:

Embed:

yes

Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station

Location:

Front and East Broad Streets, Quakertown, Pennsylvania

Coordinates:

40.4397°N -75.3344°W

Mapframe:

yes

Mapframe-Custom:

Shape:	none
Line:	none
Marker:	rail
Zoom:	14

Built:

1889, 1902

Architect:

Wilson Brothers

Builder:

Cramp and Co.

Architecture:

Late Victorian

Added:

April 14, 2000

Refnum:

00000382

The Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station is a historic train station and freight depot located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The two buildings were designed by Wilson Bros. & Company in 1889 and built by Cramp and Co. for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1902. The passenger station is constructed of dark Rockhill granite and Indiana limestone and is in a Late Victorian style. It is stories tall and measures 25abbr=offNaNabbr=off wide by 97feet, long. It has a hipped roof with an eight-foot overhang. The freight station is a -story, rectangular stone block building measuring 128by. Also on the property is a large crane that was used for freight movement.^[2] The Quakertown station had passenger rail service along the Bethlehem Line to Bethlehem and Philadelphia until July 27, 1981, when SEPTA ended service on all its intercity diesel-powered lines. SEPTA still owns the line and leases it to the East Penn Railroad. Other towns, stations, and landmarks on the Bethlehem Line are Perkasie, Pennsylvania, Perkasie Tunnel, and Perkasie station.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Lehigh Valley Transit interurbans ran on Main Street, roughly one mile to the west.^[3]

Notes and References

News: SEPTA Cuts Local Service . May 9, 2019 . The Morning Call . July 24, 1981 . Allentown, Pennsylvania . B1, B4. Newspapers.com.
Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H097404_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station]. October 7, 2012. Jeffrey L. Marshall. PDF. August 1998.
Web site: Liberty Bell Trail Feasibility Study . The Waetzman Planning Group . August 2005 . January 25, 2019 . 49.

Quakertown station explained

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Notes and References