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Buckingham Valley is a defunct station on the Reading Company's New Hope Branch. The original station building, designed by Furness, Evans & Company in 1891, closed in 1952 and was demolished in 1953.[2] The current station building was relocated to this site from the Valley Forge Scenic Railroad about 1970.[2]
Buckingham Valley | |||||||||||||
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New Hope Railroad heritage station | |||||||||||||
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Location | Upper Mountain Road, Buckingham Township, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Structure type | Depot | ||||||||||||
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Station code | BV | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | March 21, 1891[1] | ||||||||||||
Closed | June 7, 1952[1] | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1969 | ||||||||||||
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The station is currently on the line used by the New Hope Railroad. While the station sits dormant, the property is currently used for Maintenance-Of-Way storage.
References
edit- ^ a b "150 Take Last Train Ride on Old New Hope Line". The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 8, 1952. p. 41. Retrieved August 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Josh Musser. "Buckingham Valley station". Archived from the original on 2011-08-27.