Old and closed down Regional Rail stations

tgolanos wrote: R2 Warminster-Newark, De:
Baldwin
Lamokin St
Trainer
Naamans Rd
Edgemoor

Anyone have photos of these stations?

SEPTAR2Newark wrote:

tgolanos wrote: R2 Warminster-Newark, De:
Baldwin
Lamokin St
Trainer
Naamans Rd
Edgemoor

Anyone have photos of these stations?

Lamokin Tower, at the Junction of the Chester Creek Branch to Lenni:
http://www.thebluecomet.com/pcLamokintwr.jpg

Lamokin Street Station Area (not a great pic):
http://www.thebluecomet.com/pcMUlamokinSt.jpg

Apparently there was also a Heaton station on the current Warminster branch. I assume it was near where the Trenton Cutoff passes over near Terwood Rd. It would certainly be an interesting spot for a new station.

SCB2525 wrote:Apparently there was also a Heaton station on the current Warminster branch. I assume it was near where the Trenton Cutoff passes over near Terwood Rd. It would certainly be an interesting spot for a new station.

Hmm, interesting. I've never heard of that station before. I'm assuming it has nothing to do with Heaton Road, as that crosses the Newtown Line between Woodmont and County Line Stations. You have anything more on this station? All I know about this area is that a station was supposed to be opened here in one of the Newtown Line reactivation proposals. The Newtown Line would've run on its existing ROW from Newtown (Penn St.) to County Line Stations and then get looped onto the Trenton Cut-Off. It would terminate at a bi-level station at the then R2-Warminster Line crossing.

tgolanos wrote:

SCB2525 wrote:Apparently there was also a Heaton station on the current Warminster branch. I assume it was near where the Trenton Cutoff passes over near Terwood Rd. It would certainly be an interesting spot for a new station.

Hmm, interesting. I've never heard of that station before. I'm assuming it has nothing to do with Heaton Road, as that crosses the Newtown Line between Woodmont and County Line Stations.

Actually, it has a lot to do with Heaton Road which actually runs somewhat parallel to the Newtown Branch but does not cross it. Heaton was the name of the area in Moreland Township roughly bounded by the New Hope (Warminster line) Branch to the west, Terwood Road to the south, the PRR tracks and Byberry Road to the north and the Newtown Branch to the east. I always thought the station would have been closer to Terwood Road, in the area where the treatment plant sits today. Obviously this station never quite made it to the Regional Rail days and was apparently never much more than a flag stop on the P&R (Reading).

glennk419 wrote:Obviously this station never quite made it to the Regional Rail days and was apparently never much more than a flag stop on the P&R (Reading).

My data goes back to 1978 and it itsn't there.

glennk419 wrote:I always thought the station would have been closer to Terwood Road, in the area where the treatment plant sits today. Obviously this station never quite made it to the Regional Rail days and was apparently never much more than a flag stop on the P&R (Reading).

I'm still looking for pics and an exact location for the station, but I came across some interesting things. First, the PRR (not Reading Company)'s 1919 Heaton Train Crash. A Freight train loaded with lumber and coal collided with another freight on the Cut-Off at the Davisville Bridge. $100,000 worth of damage.
http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvan ... n-mar-1919

Secondly, a small history of selected townships in Pennsylvania. Scroll down to Moreland Township. The second-to-last sentence lists all of the RR stations in the township:

The Northeast Pennsylvania railroad has two miles of main trackage In the township, with stations at Willow Grove, Heaton, Fulmore, and Bonair. The Newton railway has three miles of track with stations at Huntingdon Valley and Yerksvllle (sic).

http://history.rays-place.com/pa/mont-t3.htm

Yerkesville was the name of the area around the old Paper Mill Station on the Newtown Line, named for the Yerkes family. See:
http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/FU ... 0990308001

Obviously, neither Yerksville nor Paper Mill survived into Conrail or SEPTA.

Some of those stations' names changed during their history (though I don't know about those specific ones).

Heaton is on this map.

http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.a ... g&state=PA

Roughly York Rd, north of Terwood Rd

AlexC wrote:Heaton is on this map.

http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.a ... g&state=PA

Roughly York Rd, north of Terwood Rd

Nice find, Alex. I was just posting a map with the station location when I noticed you post. You beat me to it.

Mathew Mitchell wrote:Some of those stations' names changed during their history (though I don't know about those specific ones)

I wouldn't doubt that Yerkesville became Paper Mill Station. I found a 1929 and a 1969 Fox Chase/Newtown schedule online, though. Only the 29 schedule had Paper Mill (listed as Paper Mills, mile post 15.8). Bonair, I'm pretty sure, is what eventually became Warminster. Bon Air Drive is just above County Line Road, but I'm not sure if that area was ever called Bon Air or not.

AlexC wrote:http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.a ... g&state=PA

See!
Hillside = Roslyn (Hillside Cemetery)
Rubicam = Crestmont (Rubicam Ave)
Looks like an old station called Bonair at County Line Rd. That's not Warminster: Warminster station is just south of Street Road (the next road intersecting the line on this map), and I don't think there was a station there until electrification in the 70s.

And some differently named stations on the Newtown branch too.

When I first rode the Hatboro line around 1960, there was a level, remnant pile of cinders on the west side of the track about 100 feet north of Terwood Road. That was the RDG Heaton station. The Pennsy Heaton station was farther east at the end of the Trenton Cutoff cut just short of the bend in Davisville Road. As I recall, the land thereabouts was owned by a Mrs. Heaton.

delvyrails wrote:When I first rode the Hatboro line around 1960, there was a level, remnant pile of cinders on the west side of the track about 100 feet north of Terwood Road. That was the RDG Heaton station. The Pennsy Heaton station was farther east at the end of the Trenton Cutoff cut just short of the bend in Davisville Road. As I recall, the land thereabouts was owned by a Mrs. Heaton.

Thanks John. That location coincides with about where I thought the station to have been.

i was searchin through a website about the pennsylvania railroad. apparently there were two stations on the Trenton Line called grundy and edgely that mustve never made it to Septa. Anyone kno any information about them. Any is appreciated.

The Trenton Cutoff itself never made it to the SEPTA era.