Quakertown station

{{Short description|Historic train station}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2017}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Quakertown

| style = SEPTA

| style2 = SEPTA Former

| type = Former SEPTA regional rail station

| image = Quakertown Station.jpg

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| image_caption = The former station depot at Quakertown station, as seen from the Allentown-bound platform in June 2012

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| line = Bethlehem Line

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| levels = 1

| tracks = 2 (originally 3)

| parking = Yes

| bicycle =

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| website = [http://www.quakertowntrainstation.org quakertowntrainstation.org]

| opened =

| closed = July 26, 1981{{cite news |title=SEPTA Cuts Local Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31389079/septa_quakertown_july_24_1981/ |access-date=May 9, 2019 |work=The Morning Call |date=July 24, 1981 |location=Allentown, Pennsylvania |pages=B1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31389093/septa_quakertown_part_2_july_24_1981/ B4]|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| rebuilt =

| electrified = No

| accessible = No

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| owned = Quakertown Train Station Historical Society

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| former =

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=SEPTA

|line1=Bethlehem|left1=Perkasie|right1=Centre Valley

|system2=Reading Company

|line2=Bethlehem Branch|left2=Rockhill|right2=Shelly

}}

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| nrhp = {{Infobox NRHP

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| name = Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station

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| location = Front and East Broad Streets, Quakertown, Pennsylvania

| coordinates = {{coord|40|26|23|N|75|20|4|W|display=inline,title}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#{{rcr|SEPTA|Bethlehem}} |zoom=14 }}

| built = 1889, 1902

| architect = Wilson Brothers

| builder = Cramp and Co.

| architecture = Late Victorian

| added = April 14, 2000

| area = {{convert|2.9|acre}}

| refnum = 00000382{{NRISref|2009a}}

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The Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station is a historic train station and freight depot located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The two buildings were designed by Wilson Bros. & Company in 1889 and built by Cramp and Co. for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1902. The passenger station is constructed of dark Rockhill granite and Indiana limestone and is in a Late Victorian style. It is {{frac|1|1|2}} stories tall and measures {{convert|25|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} wide by {{convert|97|ft|6|in|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}, long. It has a hipped roof with an eight-foot overhang. The freight station is a {{frac|1|1|2}}-story, rectangular stone block building measuring {{convert|128|by|30|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}. Also on the property is a large crane that was used for freight movement.{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database}} Note: This includes {{cite web| url = {{NRHP-PA|H097404_01H.pdf}}| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station| access-date = October 7, 2012| author = Jeffrey L. Marshall| format = PDF| date= August 1998}} The Quakertown station had passenger rail service along the Bethlehem Line to Bethlehem and Philadelphia until July 27, 1981, when SEPTA ended service on all its intercity diesel-powered lines.{{Williams-Philadelphia|page=83}} SEPTA still owns the line and leases it to the East Penn Railroad. Other towns, stations, and landmarks on the Bethlehem Line are Perkasie, Perkasie Tunnel, and Perkasie station.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Lehigh Valley Transit interurbans ran on Main Street, roughly one mile to the west.{{cite web | title=Liberty Bell Trail Feasibility Study | author=The Waetzman Planning Group | date=August 2005 | access-date=January 25, 2019 | url=http://perkasieborough.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Liberty-Bell-Feasibility-Study.pdf | page=49}}