Reading & Columbia Railroad - Columbia, PA
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Math Teacher
N 40° 01.774 W 076° 30.249
18T E 371659 N 4432122
The train station is in good shape but when I visited there was nothing going on there and it was very quiet.
Waymark Code: WM9E3Y
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 08/08/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member TheBeanTeam
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I found this place by accident while driving down a one way alley. The station has a gravel parking lot and looks renovated.

In the beginning...The history of the Reading & Columbia Rail Road started with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company chartered April 4, 1833 by an Act of the Pennsylvnia Legislature. This is all part of a complex story that began locally in 1857 with generated interest in a railroad between Reading and Columbia. A group of influential citizens from Lancaster and Berks Counties secured passage of a charter creating the Reading & Columbia Rail Road Company, which was signed by Governor James Pollock on May 19, 1857. SOURCE

Is the station/depot currently used for railroad purposes?: No

Is the station/depot open to the public?: Yes

If the station/depot is not being used for railroad purposes, what is it currently used for?:
museum

What rail lines does/did the station/depot serve?: Reading and Columbia Railroad

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