Ferry Avenue station
Ferry Avenue | |||||||||||
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| Location | 2600 Ferry Avenue Camden, New Jersey | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°55′22″N 75°5′30″W / 39.92278°N 75.09167°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Delaware River Port Authority | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 bay island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 (1 unused) | ||||||||||
| Connections |  NJT Buses | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 1900 spaces [citation needed] | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Electrified | 750 volts DC | ||||||||||
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Ferry Avenue is a PATCO Speedline station located in Camden and Woodlynne, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
Station layout
| P Platform level |
Westbound | ← PATCO toward 15–16th & Locust (Broadway) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| Center track | No regular service | |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| Eastbound | → PATCO toward Lindenwold (Collingswood) → | |
| G | Street Level | Entrances/Exits |
The fare control is located at street level and the platform is elevated. For most of the platform, there are two tracks, serving the Philadelphia and Lindenwold bound trains. There is also a third track that starts some halfway down the platform. The platform splits and the train can come up into this spot. It was once used by Ferry Avenue Local trains that originated here and went to Philadelphia, but the service has been discontinued. The third track is now used to store a train mid-day.
Crime
on August 9, 1995, Philadelphia Inquirer truck driver Joseph Sweeney, 49, was fatally beaten during a robbery while delivering newspapers.[1]
On November 12, 2001, Christine Lynn Eberle, 27, a PATCO commuter and resident of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey was abducted from the station's parking lot and killed. Two men, Ryshaone H. Thomas and Marcus Toliver, where charged with murder, robbery, kidnapping and weapons offenses in connection with the crime.[2][3]
On January 12, 2005, Thomas and Toliver pleaded guilty in New Jersey Superior Court in order to avoid the death penalty.[4]
New Jersey Transit Bus connections
References
- ^ "Second man held in PATCO rider's abduction", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 2001
- ^ "Second man held in PATCO rider's abduction, killing", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 2001
- ^ "2 indicted in commuter killing", The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 15, 2002
- ^ "Plea deal in PATCO slaying", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 13, 2005
- ^ "453 Timetable" (PDF). NJ Transit. Retrieved 5 August 2011.