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Watsessing Avenue is a station on NJT's Montclair-Boonton Line located at Watsetting Avenue and Moiter Place in Watsetting, NJ. Watsetting Avenue station is in zone 4.  History Watsessing Avenue was a station built by the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad in 1856. The line was then bought out by the Morris and Essex railroad in 1868, the entirety of which was then later bought out by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. Every grade crossing was eliminated between 1912 and 1913. In that time, the current station was built.  Tour The station from the outside  Watsessing is an average station along the Montclair-Boonton line. There's not much to this place, really. Most of the station house is now used for a police department's union building. Watsessing Avenue is incredibly similar to Kingsland station, albeit slightly less bad.   Back of station house I think this used to be a ticket office of some sort yea...

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...

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...

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,...