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{{Infobox station
{{Infobox station
| name=[[File:SEPTA.svg|20px]] Prospect Park<br>(Lincoln Avenue)
| name=[[File:SEPTA.svg|20px]] Prospect Park<br>(Moore)
| type=[[SEPTA]] [[regional rail]]
| type=[[SEPTA]] [[regional rail]]
| image=Prospect Park-Moore Station.jpg
| image=Prospect Park-Moore Station.jpg

Revision as of 21:36, 28 April 2016

Prospect Park
(Moore)
SEPTA regional rail
Prospect Park station in June 2014.
General information
Location735 Maryland Avenue
Prospect Park, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°53′17″N 75°18′34″W / 39.888114°N 75.309434°W / 39.888114; -75.309434
Line(s)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Other information
Fare zone2
History
Previous namesMoore Station (????–April 1, 1932[1])
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
Template:SEPTA lines
  Former services  
PRR
Template:PRR lines
Template:PRR lines

Prospect Park is a station along the SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line and Amtrak Northeast Corridor. Amtrak does not stop here; only SEPTA serves this station. The station, located at Lincoln and Maryland Avenues in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, includes a 44-space parking lot. Like the nearby Norwood Station, Prospect Park Station is located right next to the town's library, in this case the Prospect Park Public Library. It is also located near the Borough Hall.

Prospect Park Station was originally known as Moore Station, and was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. According to the Pennsylvania Railroad Stations, Past & Present website, a property owner named Moore donated the property for this station. He did so, with the "condition" that the station should carry his family name for as long as it exists. The station was renamed to Moore by the Pennsylvania Railroad on April 1, 1932.[1]

However, that same source indicates that the current station building is NOT the original PW&B structure. ("...the original PW&B station ... predated the station that still exists"). The current station building was constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

References

  1. ^ a b Baer, Christopher T. "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company It's Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1932" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical Historical Society. Retrieved December 7, 2015.