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Gwynedd Valley is a station on SEPTA's Lansdale - Doylestown line at its intersection with Plymouth Avenue in the small village of Gwynedd Valley, PA.  History Information about the history of Gwynedd Valley station is scarce. This station dates back to the 1850s. It's unknown if the station building is that old, or if it's actually a newer station built by the Reading Railroad after the acquisition of the North Penn Railroad main line. Not long after Gwynedd Valley station was built, wealthy people started moving to that area in droves. Today, many very wealthy people still live in the area.  Gwynedd Valley station is well known for an illustration of it being on the October 7th, 1961 cover of the Saturday Evening Post . This is illustrated by well-known illustrator John Falter, at the time a resident of Whitpain Township, PA.   Tour Much as you'd expect, this station really has not changed all that much in the last centu

Yardley is a station on SEPTA's West Trenton Line, located in the small borough of Yardley, PA.  History  Image from 1914 Yardley station was made operational in 1876, in time for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Originally, Yardley station was called Yardleyville, as the town itself was.  In 2018, the station was completely rebuilt and elevated, and the low platforms were replaced by one single high platform. Because of this, the station is now accessible. One of the original shelters has been preserved. Tour Silverliner IV train at Yardley Station Yardley is a very simple station. It has everything you'd expect from a train station. The platform is a full high platform, making it fully accessible.  Shelter Yardley station has one trackside shelter and honestly, it doesn't need much else.  Inside the shelter Inside the shelter, there are a few benches and heat lamps, and again not much else. Does it really

Fern Rock Transportation Center is a station that serves multiple SEPTA services located in the Fern Rock neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA.  History The old Tabor station, 1972 The history of Fern Rock Transportation Center is really the history of three different places becoming one: Fern Rock Station, Fern Rock Yard, and Tabor Station. In order to understand the history of Fern Rock Transportation Center, one must understand the history of both of these places. Tabor Station Platforms Tabor station was a train station along the Reading Railroad's Bethlehem Branch, immediately after the famed Wayne Junction station. It was built sometime in the early 1900s, near the now (mostly) nonexistent Tabor Junction. This was the intersection between the Reading Railroad's Tabor Branch and the North Penn Railroad. This junction is located at the nearby Tabor Road, hence the name of the junction and by extension the station. At some point between 1893 a