{{Short description|Railway station in Pennsylvania, United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox station | name=Churchville | style=SEPTA | style2=SEPTA Former | image=Churchville Station.JPG | image_caption=Churchville station site in 2006 | address=Knowles Avenue and Bustleton Pike<br />[[Churchville, Pennsylvania]] | coordinates={{coord|40.1849|-75.0137|region:US-PA_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}} | other= | structure= | platform=1 [[side platform]] | depth= | levels=1 | tracks=1 | parking=25 spaces | bicycle= | baggage_check= | passengers= | pass_year= | pass_percent= | pass_system= | opened=February 4, 1878<ref>{{cite web |last=Baer |first=Christopher T. |url=http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR1878%20June%2006.pdf|title=A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1878 |publisher=[[Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society]] |date=June 2006 |accessdate=January 24, 2025 |quote=Feb. 2, 1878 – Excursion with two trains of 10 cars each opens Philadelphia, Newtown & New York Railroad extension from Fox Chase to Newtown; revenue service begins Feb. 4; operated by PRR with through trains to West Philadelphia Station|page=6}}</ref> | rebuilt=1892 | closed=January 18, 1983<ref name="newtown1983">{{cite news|last1=Kennedy|first1=Sara|title=SEPTA to Boost Rail Service 13%|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14527608/septa_boost_october_21_1983/|accessdate=July 14, 2020|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=October 21, 1983|page=1–2|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref> | electrified=no | accessible= | code= | owned=SEPTA | zone= | former= | other_services_header=Former services | other_services= {{Adjacent stations|system1=SEPTA |line1=Newtown|left1=Southampton|right1=Holland |system2=Reading Company |line2=Newtown Branch|left2=Southampton|right2=Holland }} | nrhp = {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | name = Churchville Train Station, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad | partof = Churchville Historic District | nrhp_type = cp | image = Churchville Station.jpg | image_size=300px | caption=Churchville station in July 2012. | location= | mapframe = yes | mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#{{rcr|SEPTA|Newtown}} |zoom=14 }} | built = | architect OR builder = | architecture = | designated_nrhp_type = July 21, 1995 | area = {{convert|185|acre|ha|1}} | partof_refnum = 95000887<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> | nocat = yes }} | mpassengers= }}
'''Churchville station''' is a former [[train station]] in [[Churchville, Pennsylvania]]. Still owned by SEPTA and located on Knowles Avenue and Bustleton Pike, it is now a leased private residence.
The station was built in 1892, and served as a stop on the [[Reading Railroad]]'s Newtown Line. It replaced another structure built in 1878. It was later taken over by [[SEPTA]] and served as a stop on the [[Fox Chase/Newtown Line]].
==History== The station, built in 1892, was a stop on the [[Reading Company|Reading Railroad]]'s Newtown Line, and a replacement for another structure built in 1878. It was later taken over by [[SEPTA]] and served as a stop on the [[Fox Chase/Newtown Line]].
Churchville station, and all of those north of [[Fox Chase station]], was closed on January 18, 1983 due to failing [[Budd Rail Diesel Car|diesel train equipment]] resulting in low ridership.<ref name="newtown1983" />
In addition, a labor dispute began within the SEPTA organization when the transit operator inherited 1,700 displaced employees from [[Conrail]]. SEPTA insisted on utilizing transit operators from the [[Broad Street Line|Broad Street Subway]] to operate Fox Chase–Newtown diesel trains, while Conrail requested that railroad engineers run the service. When a federal court ruled that SEPTA had to use Conrail employees in order to offer job assurance, SEPTA cancelled Fox Chase–Newtown trains.<ref>{{cite news |first=Fredric N. |last=Tulsky |title=Conrail Staff Must Run Trains: court ruling bars SEPTA takeover |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=January 29, 1982}} SEPTA must use Conrail workers rather than its own personnel to run trains over the region's 13 commuter lines, a special federal court has ruled in a decision that offers some job assurance for 1,700 Conrail employees next year. The special court, in an opinion issued Wednesday, ruled that SEPTA had acted legally in October when it replaced Conrail workers with its former subway operators on the line.</ref> Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was cancelled at that time, and Churchville station still appears in publicly posted [[tariffs]].<ref>[http://www.septa.org/fares/pass/tariffs.html SEPTA Tariff No. 154]</ref>
Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase–Newtown [[Bustitution|shuttle bus]], patronage remained light, and the Fox Chase–Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.
==Station building== Churchville station has been restored and is now used as a private residence. SEPTA signage—installed in 1984, one year after train service had ended—remains in place at the station parking lot.{{citation needed|date=June 2011}} The station is a contributing property of the Churchville Historic District, which has been listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] since July 21, 1995.
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{SEPTA Regional Rail stations}}{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania}}
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