Walnut Hill station (SEPTA)
Walnut Hill | |||||||||||
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| Former railroad station | |||||||||||
 The Walnut Hill station site, now the entrance to the Pennypack Trail Extension. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 200 Moredon Road Abington Township, Pennsylvania. | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°05′49″N 75°04′28″W / 40.0970°N 75.0744°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Accessible | No | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Closed | January 18, 1983[1] | ||||||||||
| Electrified | no | ||||||||||
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Walnut Hill station is a defunct
Fox Chase/Newtown Line. SEPTA
closed the station in 1983.
History
Walnut Hill, and all stations north of
Fox Chase, was closed on January 18, 1983, due to failing diesel train equipment that SEPTA had no desire to repair.[1]
In addition, a labor dispute began within the SEPTA organization when the transit operator inherited 1,700 displaced employees from
tariffs.[3]
Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown
shuttle bus
, patronage remained light, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.
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.
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. March 6, 2009. pp. 4–7. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
