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Holmesburg Junction station, also known as just Holmesburg, is a station on SEPTA's Trenton line located at Rhawn Street in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia.  History Original station The original Holmesburg Station was built in 1833, on the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad. Eventually, that changed hands to become a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad.  Sometime later on, the station itself was rebuilt, with a new building, one that had been at the station to this day.  There used to be passeneger trains on the Bustleton Branch that linked the station to Bustleton, though these were discontinued in the 1930s, following service cuts from the PRR.  Tour The station building There is a lot at Holmesburg Junction station. For one, it has a station building and na actual shelter on the other end.  Train at the station This station is no average station, however. Quite the opposite, if anything.  Stairs It all s

Olney is a SEPTA station located in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA. Olney station is the sixth station on the Fox Chase Line, and the first unique station on the line, going northbound. History Original Olney station, from the 1860s Olney station was originally built in the 1860s or so by the Philadelphia, Newtown, snd New York Railroad, as one of the first stations. The PNNYRR itself was then absorbed by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, which then made a new station in 1906.  The original station remained for a while afterwards, and nobody knows when it was torn down. I hypothesize that it was torn down in the 1950s, or so.  Credit to West2K for the photos shown here I could not find any color photos of Olney station from before it was demolished, despite that happening fairly recently. I have seen the building itself before, and the building is brick, with the walls red. The roof was black, meanwhile, similar to many other roofs out there. Th

Lakewood Bus Terminal is a bus station in Lakewood Township, Ocean County, New Jersey. Lakewood Bus Terminal is a regional center for buses in Ocean and Monmouth counties, signifying the importance of Lakewood itself in terms of regional transportation in the process. Services Provided Bus Multiple buses stop or end at Lakewood Bus Terminal: NJT: • 63: Lakewood Bus Terminal to Weehawken • 64: Lakewood Bus Terminal to Weehawken or Journal Square • 67: Journal Square Transit Center/Newark Penn Station to Toms River Park and Ride  • 130, 132, 136, 139: Port Authority Bus Terminal to Lakewood Bus Terminal. Note: all of these are basically the same route with different stop patterns • 137: Express: Port Authority Bus Terminal to Lakewood Bus Terminal • 317: Center City Philadelphia to Asbury Park via Lakewood Bus Terminal • 559: Lakewood Bus Terminal to Atlantic City Bus Terminal  Other:  Ocean Ride Route #4: Point Pleasant Beach to Lakewood Bus Terminal Rte#9: Lower

Sign Link Belt is a station on SEPTA's Lansdale - Doylestown line, located in the southern portion of the small village of Line Lexington, PA, near county line road.  History Link Belt Factory and Station Link Belt is a company that started in 1880 in Belle Mead, Iowa. Link Belt primarily makes machinery, such as cranes, among other things. In 1952, Link Belt opened a factory aling County Line Road, in Hatfield Township, Pennsylvania, just south of the villeg of Line Lexington. Not long after, the Reading Railroad made a rail spur that went to the factory, and then a platform for a station, aptly titled "Link Belt" after the factory. The Link Belt station was made for workers at the factory to get to and from their houses and the factory.  The Link Belt factory closed in 1983, after 31 years of operation, and was replaced with other factories. Sometime later, SEPTA not only took control of operations, but they also completely remodeled the station as well.  So