Quakertown station

Quakertown
Quakertown
Former SEPTA regional rail station
	The former station depot at Quakertown station, as seen from the Allentown-bound platform in June 2012
General information
Owned by	Quakertown Train Station Historical Society
Line(s)	Bethlehem Line
Tracks	2 (originally 3)
Construction
Platform levels	1
Parking	Yes
Accessible	No
Other information
Website	quakertowntrainstation.org
History
Closed	July 26, 1981
Electrified	No
Former services
	Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Front and East Broad Streets, Quakertown, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°26′23″N 75°20′4″W / 40.43972°N 75.33444°W
Area	2.9 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1889, 1902
Built by	Cramp and Co.
Architect	Wilson Brothers
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	00000382
Added to NRHP	April 14, 2000

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 1+1⁄2 stories tall and measures 25 feet (7.6 meters) wide by 97 feet 6 inches (29.72 meters), long. It has a hipped roof with an eight-foot overhang. The freight station is a 1+1⁄2-story, rectangular stone block building measuring 128 by 30 feet (39.0 by 9.1 meters). Also on the property is a large crane that was used for freight movement.^[3] 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.^[4] SEPTA still owns the line and leases it to the East Penn Railroad. Other towns, stations, and landmarks on the Bethlehem Line are Perkasie, Perkasie Tunnel, and Perkasie station.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.^[2]

Lehigh Valley Transit interurbans ran on Main Street, roughly one mile to the west.^[5]

References

^ "SEPTA Cuts Local Service". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. July 24, 1981. pp. B1, B4. Retrieved May 9, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Jeffrey L. Marshall (August 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station" (PDF). Retrieved October 7, 2012.
^ Williams, Gerry (1998). Trains, Trolleys & Transit: A Guide to Philadelphia Area Rail Transit. Piscataway, New Jersey: Railpace Company. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-9621541-7-1.
^ The Waetzman Planning Group (August 2005). "Liberty Bell Trail Feasibility Study" (PDF). p. 49. Retrieved January 25, 2019.

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[quaker-lans-1] "SEPTA Cuts Local Service". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. July 24, 1981. pp. B1, B4. Retrieved May 9, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.

[nris-2] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[arch-3] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Jeffrey L. Marshall (August 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station" (PDF). Retrieved October 7, 2012.

[4] Williams, Gerry (1998). Trains, Trolleys & Transit: A Guide to Philadelphia Area Rail Transit. Piscataway, New Jersey: Railpace Company. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-9621541-7-1.

[5] The Waetzman Planning Group (August 2005). "Liberty Bell Trail Feasibility Study" (PDF). p. 49. Retrieved January 25, 2019.

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