Catasauqua station was a Lehigh Valley Railroad station in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. It was located on the Lehigh Valley main line.
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| Opened | July 4, 1855 | ||||||||||||
| Closed | June 30, 1933 | ||||||||||||
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Lehigh Valley service to Catasauqua began on July 4, 1855, roughly a month after the company opened its original line between Allentown and Easton, Pennsylvania.[1][2] As was common for that era, it used a locally-constructed building.[3] The company completed more permanent passenger and freight houses in 1861.[4] One historian characterized the buildings in Catasauqua in the late nineteenth century as "rag-tag"; a state of affairs which came to end when a runaway railway car damaged the buildings in 1904.[5]
The new brick passenger station in Catasauqua was constructed in 1905–1906. Amenities included a waiting room, agent's room, and a baggage room. Economic hardship led to the station's closure on June 30, 1933. Some local trains continued to stop there into the late 1930s. The station building was demolished in 1941.[2][6]
Notes
edit- ^ Archer 1977, pp. 31–32
- ^ a b "Catasauqua LVRR Station Being Dismantled". The Morning Call. June 24, 1941. p. 2. Retrieved August 7, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Sayre 1899, p. 18
- ^ Sayre 1899, p. 53
- ^ Fox 2002, p. 35
- ^ "Blames Economic Ills For Closing of Stations". The Morning Call. July 28, 1938. p. 15. Retrieved August 7, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
References
edit- Archer, Robert F. (1977). The History of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Berkeley: Howell-North Books. ISBN 978-0-8310-7113-4.
- Fox, Martha Capwell (2002). Catasauqua and North Catasauqua. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-1103-0.
- Sayre, Robert H. (1899). Lehigh Valley railroad co. Preliminary report upon the location of the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna railroad (now Lehigh Valley R.R.) August, 1852. Annual reports of superintendent and engineer, 1855 to 1863, from manuscript reports of Robert H. Sayre. New York.
External links
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