Fox Chase Train Station
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N 40° 04.610 W 075° 05.022
18T E 492863 N 4436288
The end of the RR line on the old Philly, Newtown & New York Rail Line. Now used by SE Pa. Transit Authority SEPTA. The Parking lots used to be a RR park in the early days. The line made this area one of the first RR suburbs in Philly.
Waymark Code: WMJ5ZT
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/29/2013
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The trains never reached New York the rails never went beyond Newtown. The railway to the NE is a trail, but is still owned outright by SEPTA. A highly improved trail begins at N 40 05.251' W 075 04.956'
"Fox Chase is the current terminus of SEPTA's Fox Chase Line. It is located just west of the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fox Chase Station, which has the largest number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), is the closest regional rail stop to the neighborhoods of Fox Chase, Bustleton, and Pine Valley, and Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. SEPTA rebuilt the station area and ticket office in Summer 2010.
When the PRR leased the railroad, 6.1 miles (9.8 km) of track had been laid, bringing the line to Fox Chase. The entire 22-mile (35 km) line opened as a branch of the Connecting Railway to Newtown on February 2, 1878, with equipment furnished by the PRR. On November 22, 1879, the North Pennsylvania Railroad (NPR) began operating it, as it was no longer of use to the PRR. As the NPR was controlled by the Reading Company (RDG), the Newtown line became a part of the RDG system." Wikipedia.com
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