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Lahaska
New Hope Railroad heritage station
Construction
Structure typeDepot (original), Shed (current)
History
OpenedMarch 21, 1891[1]
ClosedJune 7, 1952[1]
Rebuilt1991
Services
Preceding station New Hope Railroad Following station
Buckingham Valley
toward Warminster
Main Line New Hope
Terminus
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Bycot
service ended 1952
New Hope Branch Reeder
service ended 1952
toward New Hope

Lahaska is a defunct station on the Reading Company's New Hope Branch. The station is currently on the line used by the New Hope Railroad. The station is located in the 19838 zip code[2] on Street Road at milepost 33. Passenger services ended in 1952 when the line after Hatboro (and later Warminster) was shut down. After passenger service was discontinued, the station building was purchased by a local land owner who moved it to his property about a quarter mile away from its original location and converted it into a private residence.[3] In 1966, it became a part of the New Hope Railroad. In the late 1980s, the New Hope Railroad constructed a passing siding, built at Lahaska, for locomotives to run around their train, as Lahaska became the terminus for the hourly passenger excursions, which formerly ended at Buckingham Valley station.

References

  1. ^ a b "150 Take Last Train Ride on Old New Hope Line". The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 8, 1952. p. 41. Retrieved August 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "Lahaska Station in Bucks County PA".
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2016-06-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)