Huntingdon Valley is an abandoned train station located on Terwood Road near Old Welsh Road in Lower Moreland, Pennsylvania, not far from the Pennypack Creek. Huntingdon Valley 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 on January 14, 1983, due to SEPTA’s desire for all-electric rail operations (electrification ends at the Fox Chase station).

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  • 796 Welsh Road
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  • 796 Welsh Road
    Lower Moreland, PA
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  • Huntingdon Valley is an abandoned train station located on Terwood Road near Old Welsh Road in Lower Moreland, Pennsylvania, not far from the Pennypack Creek. Huntingdon Valley 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 on January 14, 1983, due to SEPTA’s desire for all-electric rail operations (electrification ends at the Fox Chase station). In addition, a labor dispute began within the SEPTA organization when the transit operator inherited 1,700 displaced employees from Conrail. SEPTA insisted on utilizing transit operators from the Broad Street Subway to operate Fox Chase-Newtown diesel trains, while Conrail requested that railroad motormen run the service. When a federal court ruled that SEPTA had to use Conrail employees in order to offer job assurance, SEPTA cancelled Fox Chase-Newtown trains. Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was "temporarily suspended" at that time, and Huntingdon Valley Station still appears in publicly posted tariffs. Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light. The traveling public never saw a bus service as a suitable replacement for a rail service, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999. Currently, the stone driveway of a car wash infringes upon the right-of-way at the site of the former station. There is little trace of the former station as of 2009, though SEPTA signage remains and can be clearly seen from the adjacent Welsh Road.
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  • 796 Welsh Road
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  • January 14, 1983
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  • No
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  • Abandoned tracks and a private residence near the former site of Huntindgon Valley station.
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  • station shed (demolished)
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  • Huntingdon Valley is an abandoned train station located on Terwood Road near Old Welsh Road in Lower Moreland, Pennsylvania, not far from the Pennypack Creek. Huntingdon Valley 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 on January 14, 1983, due to SEPTA’s desire for all-electric rail operations (electrification ends at the Fox Chase station).
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  • Huntingdon Valley (SEPTA station)
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