Ryers Station
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mars888
N 40° 03.833 W 075° 05.195
18T E 492615 N 4434850
This is an interesting newly rebuilt (2011) elevated station just north of the original grade crossing of Township Line Rd. (now Cottman Ave.) The Reading RR Co. built the bridge & underpass in the 20th century.
Waymark Code: WMJ3YA
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2013
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The Ryerss Family's Estate, "Burholme" was on both sides of this RR. They were at that time active in RR development. By deed they required that the train stop at least once a day. The original station is said to have been about 200 yards NE at the other property line. Which was where the main driveway from Oxford Pike (now Ave.) to the Burholme Mansion crossed the tracks.
"Ryers is a station located along SEPTA's Fox Chase Line. It is located at Cottman and Rockwell Avenues and has a 71-space parking lot. The station itself consists of a new high-level platform and shelter, completed in early 2012." Wikipedia (
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"The railroad line to Newtown was originally built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The line, opened on February 2, 1878 as the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, was built to block the construction of the parallel National Railway, later home to the Reading Railroad's (RDG) Newark, New Jersey service. After that failed, the line was operated by the North Pennsylvania Railroad starting on November 22, 1879. The RDG began leasing the line, and eventually purchased it on December 31, 1923
The Newtown Railroad was chartered on April 2, 1860, as the Philadelphia & Newtown Railroad Company. The Newtown's early history was a part of the competition to control rail traffic between New York City and Philadelphia." Wikipedia.com (
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Category Required Research Notes: Further research conducted between 2004 & 2007 at the Ryerss' Library & Museum in varied books & papers of the Ryerss Family & discussions with area residents between 2004 & 2010 at said museum. Also The 1910 Phila. City Plot Map Book. at the Philadelphia Free Library & Wikipedia & Robert Ryerss' Will.