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- From: AFECU@CUNYVM.BITNET (Aron Eisenpress)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: NEC
- Message-ID: <93027.152658AFECU@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:26:58 GMT
- References: <1jjf1oINN8vf@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
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- In article <38761@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George
- Robbins) says:
- >
- >What is the burned out elevated station (kind of on a bridge where
- >one line passes over the other) between Overbrook and 30'th street?
-
- An old map (it's on the back of a neat book called "Man-Made Philadelphia")
- shows a station a 52nd Street, where the Cynwyd (Manayunk) line branches off.
- Dunno when it was last used, but the book dates from 1972.
-
-
- In article <3229@tymix.Tymnet.COM>, romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael Stimac)
- says:
- >
- > [...] There is the Schuylkill branch which takes
- >off from the Main Line at 52nd Street (not exactly Zoo, but only
- >3.9 miles from Suburban Station).
- >
- >This line is (was?) electrifed as far as Norristown, going through such
- >towns as Bala, Cynwyd, Manayunk, Conshohocken, and Ivy Rock. Beyond
- >Norristown the line continues to a junction with the Lehigh Valley
- >at Laurel Junction passing such towns as Phoenixville, Pottstown,
- >Birdsboro, Shoemakersville, Pottsville, and New Boston.
-
- The branch through Bala only runs as far as Cynwyd, and only weekdays
- (6 trains each way). My understanding is that the bridge over the
- Schuylkill isn't in good enough shape any more.
-
- Manayunk and on has service from the ex-Reading side, through Market
- East, North Broad, etc. (The Bala branch is ex-Pennsy -- did that
- ever run thorugh on the Reading trackage?)
-