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Scarborough Road Park and Ride is a DART bus station located on Delaware Tech Drive and Scarborough Road in Dover, Delaware.  Available buses Three buses go to Scarborough Road Park and Ride, these include: 112 - Del Tech to Dover Transit Center: This is the only local bus that uses this park and ride, providing local service to multiple areas of northern Dover. This runs about half hourly to hourly six days a week. 301 - Wilmington to Dover: This is one of DART's Intercounty routes, which are essentially intercity buses operated by the state of Delaware instead of by a seperate company like Greyhound. This bus goes along DE-1 and US-13 between the two cities of Dover and Wilmington. This runs hourly on weekdays and only a few random Saturday trips.  302 - Middletown to Dover: This is another Intercounty route, this one going between Middletown and Dover. The only reason this gets much of any ridership is because of the fact that it runs locally along t...

Richard Allen Lane is a SEPTA station on the Chestnut Hill West line located on Allen Lane in the West Mount Airy neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia.  History Richard Allen Lane was built sometime around the 1880s, though the exact time when during this is unknown. It's likely that the station was built as an infill station. The station was named after the road Allen Lane, which itself was named after local mansion owner William Allen. In 1890 or so, a depot was built at the station to accommodate a new influx of passengers from the at the time newly relocated Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.    In the 1990s, a project was put underway to rehabilitate this depot and station, the first part being to actually rehabilitate everything, with the second part to make the station accessible. Both of these were completed by 2011. The Allen Lane station was renamed to Richard Allen Lane station in 2017, after Allen Lane was rededicated to R...

Eddystone is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located at East 7th Street and Saville Avenue in Eddystone, PA. This station is a flag stop for the Wilmington-Newark Line. Eddystone is by far the least used station on the Wilmington-Newark Line and for the entire SEPTA Regional Rail network as a whole. Eddystone is unsurprisingly also a flag stop.  History      Eddystone station was most likely built in the 1870s, named after the Eddystone Print Works, which relocated there from Philadelphia in 1876. Said print works were named after the Eddystone Lighthouse near Plymouth, UK. In the 1890s, Eddington became an incorporated borough. Saville Avenue near the station was named after the man who founded the borough's wife's maiden name, in honour of her.        The height of this station was in the early 1900s, when the famous Baldwin Locomotive Company was established and had a factory very close by. At its peak, this factory produced mill...