Ranya's Ramblings

Fortuna is a station on SEPTA's Lansdale - Doylestown line, one of three stations located in Hatfield Township (along with Colmar and Link Belt). This specific station is for the small village of Fortuna, located at the intersection of Cowpath road and Broad Street within Hatfield township, and named after the station. Fortuna Station often trades places with Angora for least used station on SEPTA's Regional Rail system. History Fortuna Station before it was rebuilt According to an old newspaper article from the Philadelphia Inquirer , Fortuna station was named after Fortuna, a cow that was named after Fortuna, the Roman god of fortune. The road it was on, Cowpath road, used to be an actual cowpath.  Sometime around the late 1880s, a Reading Railroad train struck and killed Fortuna, who was using the cow path. Fortuna had no chance to get away from the train. Cows of the time were unsurprisingly much slower than trains. The owner of Fortuna understood th

Parkview is a station on SEPTA's Norristown High Speed Line, located in the Parkview neighborhood of Upper Darby. I ended up here by accident. I was trying to get to Township Line Road station, one stop north of this, but a weird predicament led to me having to get off here instead.  What's Even Here?  Very little, actually.  Path To get to the station itsef, you have to take a really long path from Parkview Road, which is very easy to miss, even with the small sign for it.  More Path Path but not accessible Alas, you eventually reach the station, and it's a mess.  Sign near the walkway, graffitied  The platforms are not very good either, as shown below:  Southbound platform They didn't even put a bench there!  Northbound Platform At least the southbound platform has somewhere to stand and be sheltered from the rain.  Bus Connections Bus stop that's over a mil