Walnut Hill is an abandoned train station located on Moredon Road in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. The station was a stop on the Reading Railroad's Newtown Line. It later became a part of SEPTA's R8 Newtown Line. Walnut Hill, and all stations 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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  • 200 Moredon Road
    Abington Township, Pennsylvania.
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  • 200 Moredon Road
    Abington Township, Pennsylvania.
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  • Walnut Hill is an abandoned train station located on Moredon Road in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. The station was a stop on the Reading Railroad's Newtown Line. It later became a part of SEPTA's R8 Newtown Line. Walnut Hill, and all stations 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 Walnut Hill 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.
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  • 200 Moredon Road
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  • January 14, 1983
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  • Walnut Hill Station, now the entrance to the Pennypack Trail.
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  • Walnut Hill is an abandoned train station located on Moredon Road in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. The station was a stop on the Reading Railroad's Newtown Line. It later became a part of SEPTA's R8 Newtown Line. Walnut Hill, and all stations 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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