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Station Review #81: Avandale Bus Park & Ride (NJT)

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Avandale Park and Ride is a bus station that serves multiple NJT bus routes. The park and ride is located along Willamstown New Freedom Road in Sicklerville, NJ, near the Atlantic City Expressway.  Services There are multiple services that use Avandale Park and Ride, these include 316: EXPRESS: Philadelphia to Wildwood and Cape May via Atlantic City Expressway and Garden State Parkway 400: Sicklerville and Avandale Loop to Philadelphia 459: Avandale Loop to Lindenwold and Voorhees Town Center 463: Avandale Loop to Woodbury 551: EXPRESS: Philadelphia to Atlantic City via Atlantic City Expressway  555: EXPRESS: Philadelphia to Avandale Loop  Additionally, the SJTA runs a service:  Pureland East-West Shuttle: Avandale Loop to Pureland Industrial Park (Logan Township) via Glassboro and Mullica Hill Tour Avandale Park and Ride's bus structures from behind   There really isn't all that much at Avandale Park and Ride. The driveway to the
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Station Review #80: Hatboro (SEPTA)

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Hatboro is the second to last station on SEPTA's Warminister Line, and the last station within Montgomery county. The station is located on Penn Street between Byberry Road and Moreland Avenue in the borough of Hatboro, PA.  History Hatboro was originally built by the North Pennsylvania Railroad, on its North East Pennsylvania Railroad branch, which went as far as Hartsville, PA (now Ivyland, PA, notably not in Northeastern Pennsylvania). The old Hatboro station (not pictured above) was built and put into service in 1871. In 1879, the entire line transferred ownership to the Reading Railroad. The line then changed names to the New Hope Branch and was subsequently extended as far as New Hope.  In 1931, the line was electrified between Glenside and Hatboro. Hatboro suddenly had extra service in the form of "doodlebug" trains, an example shown above. To mark the sudden newfound importance of Hatboro station, the old station building was demolished and
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Station Review #79: Wyoming (SEPTA)

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Wyoming is a station along SEPTA's Broad Street Subway, served by the B1 service. The station is located at Broad Street and Wyoming Avenue, in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia.  Tour The entrance. A closer look at one of the entrances A very sad corner in the staircase The staircase Much like every other BSL station, there are at least two maps, one for the B and one of the main SEPTA maps as well.  Much of the inside of the station outside of the faregates The giant fence that cuts through the station It's pretty clear how similar this station is to Fairmount station, right down to the giant fence that cuts the entire station in half. Somehow, this feels worse than there just being a wall there.  Wyoming, like every other subway station without express service made by the City of Philadelphia has a mosaic wall The platform The tracks, simil
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Station Review #78: Cornwells Heights (Amtrak/SEPTA)

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Cornwells Heights (pronounced and often misspelled as "Cornwell Heights") is a train station along the Northeast Corridor. The station is located at 700 Station Avenue in Cornwells Heights, PA, a CDP located within Bensalem, PA.  The station is mainly served by SEPTA's Trenton line. Despite this, three trips of Amtrak's Keystone Service stop at the station every day: 640 (7:02 AM), 649 (3:51 PM), and 655 (7:40 PM). Cornwells Heights is currently the least used Amtrak station in the state of Pennsylvania.  From Station Avenue to the edge of the park and ride, this station is about half a mile long.  History Despite how it is today, Cornwells Heights was not nearly as important as it is now for much of its existence. The first known iteration of Cornwells Heights station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1891. It's unknown if there was any iteration of the station from before that year, and was only rebuilt by the PRR or not. This is
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