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Pages in category "Railway stations in the United States opened in 1943" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
In 1889, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway decided to build a train depot, passenger station, and company headquarters on the corner of 12th and Market Streets. The move came eight years after the Pennsylvania Railroad opened its Broad Street Station several blocks away at 15th and Market Streets, and one year after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened its 24th Street Station at 24th and ...
Railway stations in India opened in 1943 (1 P) J. Railway stations in Japan opened in 1943 (29 P) N. Railway stations in Norway opened in 1943 (7 P) R.
Opened in 1881 at a cost of $4,272,268.53 ($135 million in 2023), [3] the station was expanded in the early 1890s by famed Philadelphia architect Frank Furness. For most of its existence it was, with City Hall, one of the crown jewels of Philadelphia's architecture, and until a 1923 fire, had the largest train shed in the world (a 91 m span).
Its steel train shed, with 32 parallel tracks (later increased to 42), was the largest of its kind when the station opened. At its peak in 1943, more than 100,000 passengers passed through St ...
Frankford Junction is a railroad junction, and former junction station, [3] located on the border between the Harrowgate neighborhood of Philadelphia and Frankford, Philadelphia. At the junction, the 4-track Northeast Corridor line from Trenton connects with the 2-track Atlantic City Line from Atlantic City in the northeastern portion of ...
The B&O Station building was also home to the Philadelphia Model Railroad Club, which split into two separate clubs when the building was torn down. The first reopened as the Cherry Valley Model Railroad Club in Merchantville, New Jersey in 1962, [9] and the second as the East Penn Traction Club several years later. [10]
When the Philadelphia suburbs were small towns, people lived close enough to a train station to walk to and from the trains. When the suburbs expanded into what had been fields and pastures, the trip to the station required an automobile, leading commuters to remain in their cars and drive all the way into the city as a matter of convenience. [15]