Pottstown station

Pottstown
Charles W. Dickinson Transportation Center Colebrookdale Railroad heritage railroad station PART bus terminal Former SEPTA regional rail station
High St. between Hanover and York Sts., Pottstown, Pennsylvania
General information
Connections	Schuylkill River Trail  PART bus lines  SEPTA 93 to Norristown
Services
Preceding station   Colebrookdale Railroad   Following station Terminus Template:Colebrookdale Railroad lines Template:Colebrookdale Railroad stations toward Template:Colebrookdale Railroad stations
Former services Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Template:SEPTA stations Closed 1981 toward Template:SEPTA stations Template:SEPTA lines Template:SEPTA stations Closed 1981 toward Template:SEPTA stations Reading Railroad Template:Reading Railroad stations toward Template:Reading Railroad stations Template:Reading Railroad lines Template:Reading Railroad stations toward Template:Reading Railroad stations Terminus Template:Reading Railroad lines Template:Reading Railroad stations toward Template:Reading Railroad stations
Reading Railroad Pottstown Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates	40°14′41″N 75°39′9″W
Area	1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built	1928
Architect	Dillenbeck, Clark
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	84003514
Added to NRHP	January 12, 1984

Pottstown, now referred to as the Charles W. Dickinson Transportation Center, is a bus terminal for the Pottstown Area Rapid Transit located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The station was built in 1928 as a train station for the Reading Railroad and was active long enough to be served by SEPTA diesel service trains until 1981. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 12, 1984, as the Reading Railroad Pottstown Station, and is located in the Old Pottstown Historic District, close to the Schuylkill River Trail.

The station was designed in the Classical Revival style by the railroad's engineering staff rather than by an outside architect. Stations built in the nineteenth century by the Reading Railroad had usually been designed by outside architects, including Frank Furness. During the twentieth century, the railroad became less profitable and most stations were designed in simpler styles in-house.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

External links

• Media related to Reading Railroad Pottstown Station at Wikimedia Commons