Slatington station
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Slatington station was a Lehigh Valley Railroad station in Slatington, Pennsylvania, located on the Lehigh Valley main line. The station also served the Lehigh and New England Railroad; the Reading Company at one time had an adjacent station. The Central Railroad of New Jersey had an unconnected station across the Lehigh River in Walnutport, Pennsylvania.[1]
The Lehigh Valley opened its first station in Slatington in 1856.[a] A second, larger station building replaced it in 1863.[5] A third and final station, made of brick, opened circa 1877.[6]
Passenger service to Slatington ended on February 4, 1961, with the end of all passenger service on the Lehigh Valley.[7] The station was badly damaged by a Lehigh Valley derailment on February 1, 1969, and demolished shortly thereafter.[6]
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Footnotes[edit]
- ^ Official Guide of the Railways. New York: National Railway Publication Co. January 1904. p. 1153. OCLC 6340864.
- ^ "Lehigh Valley Railroad Station Historical Marker". Retrieved August 5, 2018.
- ^ Mathews & Hungerford 1884, p. 559
- ^ Sayre 1899, p. 18
- ^ Sayre 1899, p. 81
- ^ a b "Old Slatington Station Now Just a Memory". The Morning Call. February 7, 1969. p. 12. Retrieved August 5, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Archer 1977, p. 275
References[edit]
- Archer, Robert F. (1977). The History of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Berkeley: Howell-North Books. ISBN 978-0-8310-7113-4.
- Mathews, Alfred; Hungerford, Austin N. (1884). History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Everts & Richards.
- Sayre, Robert H. (1899). Lehigh Valley railroad co. Preliminary report upon the location of the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna railroad (now Lehigh Valley R.R.) August, 1852. Annual reports of superintendent and engineer, 1855 to 1863, from manuscript reports of Robert H. Sayre. New York.