Lahaska station

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Lahaska
New Hope Railroad heritage station
Location1917 Street Road, New Hope, PA
Platforms1
Construction
Structure typeDepot (original), Shed (current)
Disabled accessno
History
OpenedMarch 21, 1891[1]
ClosedJune 7, 1952[1]
Rebuilt1991
Services
Preceding station New Hope and Ivyland Railroad Following station
Buckingham Valley
toward Warminster
 Main Line New Hope
Terminus
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Bycot
toward Philadelphia
 New Hope Branch Reeder
toward New Hope

Lahaska is a defunct station on the Reading Company's New Hope Branch. The station is currently on the line used by the New Hope Railroad. The station is located in the 18938 zip code[2] on Street Road at milepost 33. Passenger services ended in 1952 when the line after Hatboro (and later Warminster) was shut down. After passenger service was discontinued, the station building was purchased by a local land owner who moved it to his property about a quarter mile away from its original location and converted it into a private residence.[3] In 1966, it became a part of the New Hope Railroad. In the late 1980s, the New Hope Railroad constructed a passing siding, built at Lahaska, for locomotives to run around their train. Lahaska became the terminus for the new regular train (45-minutes long), which replaced the destination of Buckingham Valley station, of which trips took 75-minutes to complete.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "150 Take Last Train Ride on Old New Hope Line". The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 8, 1952. p. 41. Retrieved August 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  2. ^ "Lahaska Station in Bucks County PA".
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2016-06-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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