King's School station
King's School | |||||||||||
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.svg){kind=small} Pittsburgh Light Rail station | |||||||||||
 Looking north | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Library Road at King's School Road Bethel Park, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°18′29″N 80°02′00″W / 40.3080°N 80.0332°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Pittsburgh Regional Transit | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1903 | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 50[1] (weekday boardings) | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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King's School is a station on the
Port Authority of Allegheny County's light rail network, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
. The street level stop is designed as a small commuter stop, serving area residents who walk to the train so they can be taken toward Downtown Pittsburgh.
History
A stop was established at Kings School when the
Castle Shannon to continue their journey to Downtown via the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad.[2] It was cut back to Library in 1953 and was converted from PCC operation to Light Rail in 1988.[3]
References
- ^ "System Map Winter 2018". Port Authority.
- ^ John Baxter (July 1952). Electric Railroads, Number Twenty. Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, New Jersey: Electric Railroaders Association, Inc. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ^ Roger T. DuPuis II (18 February 2002). "Pittsburgh Railways Online - PCC and Light Rail History: 1936-1999". Retrieved 12 August 2009.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to King's School Road (PAT station).
- Port Authority T Stations Listings
- PCC 1776 at King's School stop in 1973
- Station from Kings School Road from Google Maps Street View
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