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» George School 
» Newtown, Pennsylvania, USA (more..)
» August 07, 2010
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Here, we see what was once the station stop at George School - a Quaker boarding and day school built in Newtown, PA (NE of Trenton, NJ) in 1893 which survives today. The steps (center right) led to the open space which was where the station was. To the left is part of what remains of SEPTA's R8 Fox Chase to Newtown rail line, formerly the Reading Railroad's Newtown branch, nee, the Philadelphia and Newtown Railroad which last saw service in 1983. To help put this in perspective - this line was at one time considered a possible counter route to the PRR's monopoly on transportation connecting the then two largest cities in the US; NYC and Philadelphia. Instead, the PRR leased the line and forced the Reading to build a different route via Yardley (then Yardleyville), PA which later hosted the lines famous Reading Crusader, as well as trains from the B&O.
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