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 #267692  by kevikens
 
Choess: did it ever actually build north of the stub at Martin's Mill Road ? I am talking circa 1950 and at that time it went past the depot, crossed Martin Rd and Oxford Ave. and just ended in what was at that time a vacant field.

 #267741  by JimBoylan
 
Bustleton PRR station was near the SouthWest corner of Bustleton & Grant Aves. The through girder bridge over Roosevelt Blvd. was removed when the boulevard was widened in 1963.
If the bumper at the North end of the Oxford Rd. branch had ever fallen off, it would have landed on the South sidewalk of Levick St., since it was on a high embankment.

 #267869  by Sir Ray
 
JimBoylan wrote:Bustleton PRR station was near the SouthWest corner of Bustleton & Grant Aves. The through girder bridge over Roosevelt Blvd. was removed when the boulevard was widened in 1963.
So there was no freight service north of Roosevelt, only passenger service to Bustleton Avenue? Since it looks as if the Reading line is only about a 1/4 mile north of that intersection, was there any passenger service on it around that area?
(Upon looking at the map and LiveLocal, there seems to be a clear ROW between Michener St. and Beyer Ave, and then north almost to Bustleton (it's a Utility ROW now, bracketed by white high tension wire poles, which then veer off West). The most likely spot for the station seems to be a beige one story commercial building with an open patio in the back, a greehouse, and mini-shuttle buses parked nearby - a community center?

 #268062  by JimBoylan
 
Sir Ray wrote:So there was no freight service north of Roosevelt, only passenger service to Bustleton Avenue?
CT-1000, the list of stations and sidings, also shows freight and Public Delivery sidings at Bustleton.