Churchville (SEPTA station)
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Churchville is an abandoned train station located on Knowles Avenue and Bustleton Pike in Churchville, Pennsylvania. The station, built in 1892, was a stop on the Reading Railroad's Newtown Line. It later became a part of SEPTA's R8 Newtown Line. The station, and all of those north of Fox Chase, was closed in February 1983, due to SEPTA’s desire for all-electric rail operations (electrification ends at the Fox Chase station). Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was "temporarily suspended" at that time, and the Churchville station still appears in publicly posted tariffs. The building has been restored and is now used as a private residence. The former station retains its SEPTA Regional Rail signs that were in use when the station was closed in 1983.
Independent filmmaker Tom Quinn used the Churchville train station in his film Lusting For Dust Words.
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(closed 1983)
toward Chestnut Hill West
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R8 |
(closed 1983)
toward Newtown
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