The Hellertown station was a train station which was located in

Hellertown, Pennsylvania Hellertown is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Its population was 6,132 at the 2020 census. Hellertown is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th most populous metropolitan area ...

on the former

Bethlehem Line The Bethlehem Line was a SEPTA Regional Rail service on the former Reading Company Bethlehem Branch between Lansdale and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Some trains continued over the electrified Lansdale/Doylestown Line to the Reading Terminal in Phil ...

of the

North Pennsylvania Railroad The North Pennsylvania Railroad was a railroad company which served Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Bucks County and Northampton County in Pennsylvania. It was formed in 1852 and began operation in 1855. The Philadelphia and Reading Railway, ...

. Closed in July 1981, it was razed on December 6, 1982; no trace of it remains.

History and architectural features

In 1871, the Hellertown station was one of thirty-three stations that were erected along a 54.6-mile line of the North Penn Railroad that ran from Berks Street in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

to Bethlehem Union Station in

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bethlehem is a city in Northampton and Lehigh Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bethlehem had a total population of 75,781. Of this, 55,639 were in Northampton County and 19, ...

. This station was last used by

SEPTA diesel service The SEPTA Regional Rail system is a commuter rail network owned by the SEPTA, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and serving the Delaware Valley, Philadelphia Metropolitan area. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active ...

and was closed in July 1981 after

SEPTA The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus services for nearly 4 million people in five coun ...

terminated all diesel routes. The station was razed on December 6, 1982.

References

Railway stations in the United States opened in 1877 Former SEPTA Regional Rail stations Former railway stations in Pennsylvania Railway stations in the United States closed in 1981 {{SEPTA Regional Rail stations