Newtown station (SEPTA)
Newtown | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Former railroad station | |||||||||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Penn Street Newtown, Pennsylvania. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°13′36″N 74°55′52″W / 40.2266°N 74.9312°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | Terminal station | ||||||||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||||||||
Structure type | station shed (demolished) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1873 (RDG) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | January 18, 1983[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Electrified | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
Former services | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Newtown station is a defunct railroad station in
closed the station in 1983.History
SEPTA experimented with the line by operating the Fox Chase-Newtown diesel segment as the Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line. SEPTA insisted on utilizing transit operators from the Broad Street Subway as a cost-saving factor, while Conrail requested that railroad engineers run the service. This was a result of a labor dispute that began when SEPTA inherited approximately 1,700 displaced employees from Conrail. When a federal court ruled that SEPTA had to use Conrail employees in order to offer job assurance, SEPTA cancelled Fox Chase-Newtown trains.[2]
Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was cancelled at that time, and the Newtown station still appears in publicly posted
Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown
References
- ^ a b Kennedy, Sara (October 21, 1983). "SEPTA to Boost Rail Service 13%". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 1–2. Retrieved July 14, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Tulsky, Fredric N. (January 29, 1982). "Conrail Staff Must Run Trains: court ruling bars SEPTA takeover". The Philadelphia Inquirer. SEPTA must use Conrail workers rather than its own personnel to run trains over the region's 13 commuter lines, a special federal court has ruled in a decision that offers some job assurance for 1,700 Conrail employees next year. The special court, in an opinion issued Wednesday, ruled that SEPTA had acted legally in October when it replaced Conrail workers with its former subway operators on the line.
- ^ SEPTA Tariff No. 154; effective July 1, 2013
- ^ Bucks Views website, documenting out-of-service Newtown train line