TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: HISTORY : UNITED STATES: STATES: PENNSYLVANIA: The End of Rail Service to Newtown and the Fiery Crash That Hastened the Demise
David P. Dillard
TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: HISTORY :
UNITED STATES: STATES: PENNSYLVANIA:
The End of Rail Service to Newtown and the Fiery Crash
That Hastened the Demise
I sent this post to the Philly_Traction list as a response to the SEPTA
News in Brief comments regarding service between Fox Chase and Newtown on
the then Newtown branch of this service that is now called the Fox Chase
line. There are two photograph web site additions in this post that are
valuable records of a station and of an accident that provide more
understanding of this abandonment and of its impact.
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In regard to the train service between Fox Chase and Newtown, this was
abandonned in the early 1980's. I have posts on Net-Gold about the train line
and other interesting matters, these would be my posts and not posts from other
members, who are focused on other matters related to Newtown.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/
msearch?query=newtown+and+train&submit=Search&charset=utf-8>
A shorter URL for the above link:
This post details the truck train crash that hastened the end of rail service
between Newtown and Fox Chase
[Philly_Traction] SEPTA News in Brief (May 30) New life for the Newtown branch?
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/13077>
For quite a few years a bus replaced the train service running from Fox Chase
to Newtown and providing stops at most of the former train stations.
That service was eliminated and has been partially replaced by through service
with very limited weekday runs by route 24 which provides some service between
the Frankford Transportation Center and Southamton with a stop near but not at
the Fox Chase Train station (Oxford and Lonney) and a direct connection at the
Ryers station on Cotman Avenue with the Fox Chase train line.
This web link shows the Newtown statement, a bride waiting for a new husband,
so to speak, a station without trains, many that have been left by reductions
in rail service destinations in the regions around Philadelphia.
<http://www.bucksviews.com/trains/NewtownStation.htm>
These photographs are a vivid account in photo of the horror of the train truck
collision that resulted in the end of rail service to Newtown.
<http://www.epfba.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?
t=830&sid=68f182005e86da1a7454890a9f54bfa3>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jw...@temple.edu
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