Jenkintown, PA 
Train time at JenkintownREADING COMPANY
This page will cover the line from Jenkintown, site of the junction with the West Trenton line, to Lansdale, Doylestown and north to Bethlehem. The lines from Jenkintown to Lansdale and the Doylestown branch are electrified while the Bethlehem branch from Lansdale to Bethlehem was not electrified. Presently there is no passenger service between Lansdale and Bethlehem.
Jenkintown, PA
Train time at Jenkintown
Behind the single MU car is the junction with the West Trenton line. The line to Lansdale swings off to the left.
First station stop is Glenside 
followed by North Hills
Oreland 
Fort Washington 
Ambler
Penllyn passenger 
Small freight house at Penllyn
Gwynedd Valley The unusual names are of a Welsh ancestry.
North Wales
Lansdale is junction point for the Doylestown branch. Another branch came up from Norristown to Lansdale, but was a lightly used freight only branch.
Lansdale Station. Note that most of the stations so far are built of
native stone.
We will follow the short Doylestown branch first and return to Lansdale.
Colmer 
Chalfont
Doylestown station Freight House 1983 Freight House 1994 Layover yard, 1994
Up until 1981, there was regular passenger service between Philadelphia and Bethlehem. The RDC cars were used primarily for this service.
On a dreary September 1979 day, trains to and from Bethlehem stop at Lansdale.
Hatfield
Souderton passenger station 
Small fright house
Telford passenger station 
freight house
Sellersville
Perkasie. Note the signal at the end of the double track. A single
track tunnel is just north of this town.
The Perkasie freight station.
The largest town between Lansdale and Bethlehem is Quakertown.
A very large passenger and freight station were here.
A Philadelphia bound Sunday afternoon train stops at Quakertown, September 1979.
In pictures taken in 1970, a train enroute to Bethlehem passes through Coopersburg, PA. Photos courtesy Gary Madden.
Passing the Bethlehem Steel plant
Trains stopped at the remains of the joint Reading and Lehigh Valley station in
Bethlehem.
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