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Station Review #94: Bartram Avenue (SEPTA)

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Bartram Avenue is a station on SEPTA's 102/D2 line. The station is located at Bartram Avenue in Collingdale.  Tour Trolley at Bartram Avenue  Bartram Avenue is an extremely simple station, one that is also very small.  The platforms Bartram Avenue has two platforms, but only one track shared between them both.  Maps and schedules The shelter and bench The shelter, from another angle There is absolutely nothing here of note whatsoever.  Points of Interest near Bartram Avenue There's not much near Bartram Avenue station. Besides houses, cemetaries, and a small park, there is also St. Joseph's Place. St. Joseph's Place is a complex consisting of a Catholic church, Catholic school, and a retirement home. Besides this, most in the area only use this station to get to or from their houses.  Statistics Name: Bartram Avenue   Agency: SEPTA Line(s): D2 Locality: Collingdale...

Station Review #82: Watsessing Avenue (NJT)

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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...