{{short description|Railway station in Pennsylvania, United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox station | name = George School | style = SEPTA | style2 = SEPTA Former | type = Former railroad station | image = George School Station.jpg | image_caption = George School station, {{circa|1905}} | address = [[George School]], [[Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Middletown, Pennsylvania]] | coordinates = {{coord|40.2123|-74.9389|region:US-PA_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}} | other = | structure = demolished | platform = | depth = | levels = | tracks = 1 | parking = | bicycle = | baggage_check = | passengers = | pass_year = | pass_percent = | pass_system = | opened = 1905 ([[Reading Company|RDG]]) | 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> | rebuilt = | electrified = no | accessible = | code = | owned = SEPTA | zone = | former = | other_services_header = Former services | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=SEPTA |line1=Newtown|left1=Holland|right1=Newtown |system2=Reading Company |line2=Newtown Branch|left2=Holland|right2=Newtown }} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|SEPTA|Newtown}} | mapframe-marker = rail }} '''George School station''' is a defunct railroad station at [[George School]], a private [[Quaker]] boarding and day high school in [[Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania]]. The original station was built by the [[Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad]] in 1893 and burned in 1905. It was replaced with a station that was moved from Huntingdon Valley, further down the Newtown Branch. That station was demolished in 1971. A cinder 'platform' was used as a flagstop by both the Reading Railroad and [[SEPTA Regional Rail]]. [[SEPTA]] closed the station and several others in 1983 [[SEPTA|when train service was suspended.]]
==History== George School station was a stop on the [[Reading Company|Reading Railroad]]'s Newtown Line. The Philadelphia, Newtown & New York Railroad (PN&NY) constructed the station as an inducement for the George School founders to choose this site (originally the Worth Farm) over three others in final consideration. The PN&NY also offered to haul all building materials for the Main building at their cost, as an additional incentive. There was also a passing siding and a coal trestle at the site. The stone piers for the trestle still remain, although the tracks and steel supports were removed during the 1960s. The PN&NY was later absorbed into the Reading Railroad system. It later became a part of [[SEPTA]]'s [[Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line]]. The station, and all of those north of [[Fox Chase (SEPTA station)|Fox Chase]], was closed on January 18, 1983, due to failing [[Budd Rail Diesel Car|diesel train equipment]].<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 continue to 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 "temporarily suspended" at that time, and George School station still appears in publicly posted tariffs.<ref>[http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/t154s37.pdf SEPTA Tariff No. 154; effective July 1, 2009] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531144545/http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/t154s37.pdf |date= May 31, 2012 }}</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.<ref>[http://newtownline.pa-tec.org/history.html newtownline.pa-tec.org/history] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727161359/http://www.newtownline.pa-tec.org/history.html |date= July 27, 2011 }}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.georgeschool.org/ George School website] {{SEPTA Regional Rail stations}} {{DEFAULTSORT:George School (Septa Station)}} [[Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1905]] [[Category:Former SEPTA Regional Rail stations]] [[Category:Former Reading Company stations]] [[Category:Former railway stations in Bucks County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:1905 establishments in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:1983 disestablishments in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1983]]