{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox station | name = Perkasie | style = SEPTA |style2 = SEPTA Former | type = Former [[SEPTA]] [[regional rail]] station | native_name = | native_name_lang = | symbol_location = | symbol = | image = Train Station and Union Hotel Perkasie Pennsylvania c1910.jpg | alt = Train Station and Union Hotel in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA, shown in a 1910 postcard. | caption = Train station and Union Hotel in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA, shown in a 1910 postcard. | address = 8th Street, [[Perkasie, Pennsylvania|Perkasie]], [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bucks County]], [[Pennsylvania]] | borough = | country = USA | coordinates = {{coord|40.3744|-75.2968|region:US-PA_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title}} | owned = | operator = [[North Pennsylvania Railroad]], [[Reading Company]], [[Conrail]], [[SEPTA Regional Rail]] | line = Bethlehem Branch | distance = | platforms = | tracks = 2 | train_operators = [[North Pennsylvania Railroad]], [[Reading Company]], [[Conrail]], [[SEPTA Regional Rail]] | connections = | structure = | parking = No | bicycle = | accessible = No | code = | zone = | website = | opened = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | closed =July 26, 1981<ref name="quaker-lans">{{cite news |title=SEPTA Cuts Local Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31389079/septa_quakertown_july_24_1981/ |accessdate=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}}</ref> | electrified = No | passengers = | pass_year = | pass_rank = | other_services_header = Former services | other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=SEPTA |line1=Bethlehem|left1=Lansdale|right1=Quakertown |line2=Bethlehem|left2=Sellersville|right2=Quakertown |system3=Reading Company |line3=Bethlehem Branch|left3=Sellersville|right3=Rockhill }} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 | mapframe-marker-color = #{{rcr|SEPTA|Bethlehem}} | mapframe-marker = rail }} '''Perkasie''' is a defunct [[train station]] formerly operated by [[SEPTA Regional Rail]] in [[Perkasie, Pennsylvania|Perkasie]], [[Pennsylvania]], USA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSNEAQAAIAAJ&q=Perkasie |title= Official Railway Guide |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |date=1980}}</ref> It closed on July 29, 1981, after [[SEPTA]] cancelled its diesel train routes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/186008830/ |date=March 26, 1981 |newspaper=Philadelphia Daily News |title=SEPTA Votes to Trim 2 Rail Lines|first=Ken |last=Lockerby |quote=... the SEPTA board yesterday voted to cut service on two commuter rail lines. The SEPTA board made the cuts because four of the counties served by the two lines Lehigh, Northampton. Schuylkill and Berks have refused to help subsidize them. As of April 1. unless the counties offer to help SEPTA financially, service will stop on the Quakertown-Bethlehem line to Centre Valley, Hellertown and Bethlehem.}}</ref> The station was formerly operated by the [[Reading Company]] and later by [[Conrail]] and SEPTA. [[East Penn Railroad]] operates freight trains on the line between [[Lansdale, Pennsylvania|Lansdale]], and beyond. However, active track ends just north of [[Quakertown, Pennsylvania|Quakertown]].
The [[Perkasie Tunnel]] is located near the station.<ref name="HAER">{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa3700/pa3719/data/pa3719data.pdf |title=North Pennsylvania Railroad, Landis Ridge Tunnel |last=Spivey |first=Justin M. |date=April 2001 |website=Historic American Engineering Record |publisher=Library of Congress |location=Washington, D.C. |page=1 |accessdate=January 30, 2014}}</ref>
The station was formerly equipped with a [[water tower]], of which not a trace remains.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MEMORIES OF PERKASIE |url=http://www.perkasiehistory.org/1/post/2021/03/memories-of-perkasie3197495.html |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Perkasie Historical Society |language=en}}</ref>
[[Lehigh Valley Transit]] interurbans used a separate station at Walnut and Penn, several blocks to the south and east.<ref>{{cite web | title=Liberty Bell Trail Feasibility Study | author=The Waetzman Planning Group | date=August 2005 | accessdate=January 25, 2019 | url=http://perkasieborough.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Liberty-Bell-Feasibility-Study.pdf | page=50 | archive-date=January 26, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126061653/http://perkasieborough.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Liberty-Bell-Feasibility-Study.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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[[Category:1981 disestablishments in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Former Reading Company stations]] [[Category:Former SEPTA Regional Rail stations]] [[Category:Former railway stations in Bucks County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1981]]