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| Location | 830 Holland Road Holland, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°11′37″N74°59′06″W / 40.1935°N 74.9851°W /40.1935; -74.9851 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| System | Former railroad station | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1side platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | station shed (demolished) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Closed | January 18, 1983[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Holland station is a defunct railroad station inHolland, Pennsylvania. Located on Holland Road, it served theReading Railroad and laterSEPTA Regional Rail'sFox Chase/Newtown Line.SEPTA cancelled railroad service in 1983; buses continued to stop at the station in 1999, and the facility was subsequently demolished.
Holland station was a stop on theReading Railroad's Newtown Line. It later became a part ofSEPTA'sFox Chase Rapid Transit Line. The station, and all of those north ofFox Chase station, was closed on January 18, 1983, due to failingdiesel train equipment.[1]
In addition, a labor dispute began within the SEPTA organization when the transit operator inherited 1,700 displaced employees fromConrail. SEPTA insisted on utilizing transit operators from theBroad Street Subway to operate Fox Chase–Newtown diesel trains, while Conrail requested that railroad engineers run the service. When a federal court ruled that SEPTA had to use Conrail employees in order to offer job assurance, SEPTA cancelled Fox Chase–Newtown trains.[2] Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was cancelled at that time, and Holland station still appears in publicly postedtariffs.[3]
Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase–Newtownshuttle bus, patronage remained light, and the Fox Chase–Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999. SEPTA constructed a metal shelter in the early 1980s shortly before train service ended. The shelter was demolished in the summer of 2000, shortly after bus service was terminated.
