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Asbury Park is a station on NJT's North Jersey Coast Line, located just outside of downtown Asbury Park, New Jersey.  Tour NJCL train at Asbury Park station The day I went to Asbury Park station, the main building was under construction. Fortunately, the rest of the station still exists and is usable.  Construction notice Inside the station building Building from afar Yet another construction notice But just because the station building was under construction, doesn't mean the entire station is unusable. You can still use the platforms, which most people at this station did.  Southern Platform One very odd thing about the station is that the platforms are not directly across from each other, rather the southbound platform being further north than the northbound platform.  The platforms have about everything you'd expect from them, from benches to maps and schedules.  ...

Station Sign Doylestown is a train station located in Doylestown Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Doylestown Station is the secondary terminus for the Lansdale - Doylestown line, and many trains often do not go to this station History Station in 1930 This is the first incarnation of Doylestown station, built in 1871 by the North Penn railroad. This is the only surviving North Penn station on the Doylestown Branch, as all the other stations on the Doylestown Branch got rebuilt by the Reading Railroad or SEPTA. Everything except for the cupola is exactly the same.  Tour and Gallery Outside of station building  Doylestown Station is an old and small building off the side of the road. a picture of it is shown above Trans-Bridge Lines service goes here Braille plate Back of the station Some trains Bench Train Full Station Building Inside the statio...

Colmar is a station on SEPTA's Lansdale - Doylestown line, located in the village of Colmar in southern Hatfield Township, PA, at the junction of the Lansdale - Doylestown line and Pennsylvania State Route 309.  History Old station building The building was originally built by the North Pennsylvania railroad in 1856 as Line Lexington Station, though the station itself was not in the nearby village of Line Lexington.  The station was renamed in 1871 to Colmar, as was the village of Colmar Sometime around 20 or so years ago, the station was rebuilt.  Tour Train at Colmar station Colmar station is like your average Doylestown Branch station. That is, a shelter on a full - high platform in the middle of nowhere. Most of them except for Lansdale, Link Belt, Delaware Valley University, and Doylestown have the exact same design of shelter. See? Colmar is not much different than most of those stations.  Benches The ...

Delaware Valley University is a station on SEPTA's Lansdale - Doylestown line, located in Farm School, Doylestown Township, PA, immediately outside Doylestown Borough.  History Old station shack wasn't much different This station was built by the Reading Railroad at some point in the late 1890s for National Farm School, and agricultural school. Unsurprisingly, this caused the station to be named Farm School, which caused the town itself to be named Farm School.  National Farm School ended up changing its name a few times, shown in the timeline below 1896: National Farm School - first name 1948: National Agricultural College 1960: Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture 1989: Delaware Valley College  2014: Delaware Valley University - Current Name Naturally, the train station changed names a few times as well to reflect this. While the university was changing names a few times, the train station ended up getting rebuilt some time around 2...