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Centre Valley station

Coordinates: 40°31′47″N 75°23′23″W / 40.529591°N 75.389723°W / 40.529591; -75.389723
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Centre Valley
Former SEPTA regional rail station
Centre Valley station on the Saucon Rail Trail in Center Valley, Pennsylvania in 2022
General information
LocationStation Road and New Street, Center Valley, Pennsylvania, U.S.
USA
Coordinates40°31′47″N 75°23′23″W / 40.529591°N 75.389723°W / 40.529591; -75.389723
Line(s)Bethlehem Line
Tracks1
Construction
ParkingNo
AccessibleNo
History
ClosedJune 30, 1981[1]
Former services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Quakertown Bethlehem Line Hellertown
toward Allentown
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Coopersburg Bethlehem Branch Bingen
toward Bethlehem

Center Valley is a defunct train station formerly operated by SEPTA Regional Rail on the former Bethlehem Line in Center Valley in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania in the United States.[2] It closed in 1981 when SEPTA terminated all diesel train service and was subsequently demolished.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Moylan, Tom (June 30, 1981). "Rail Service Ends Today for Bethlehem; SEPTA Retains Quakertown Run". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. p. 16. Retrieved September 1, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "Official Railway Guide". Official Railway Guide. 1980.
  3. ^ Lockerby, Ken (March 26, 1981). "SEPTA Votes to Trim 2 Rail Lines". Philadelphia Daily News. ... 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.