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Pennington Railroad Station is a disused train station in Pennington, Mercer County,
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, United States. The station was built in 1882 by the
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, and added to the
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on December 31, 1974.


History

The first tracts in Pennington were completed in 1873, providing service to the Mercer and Somerset rail line but by 1976, the Delaware and Brook Bound line ran it out of business. Pennington Railroad Station was designed by Daniel A. Clarkson and in 1882, the station was completed by Irish workers. It was leased to the Reading Railroad for 990 years for $275,000 plus taxes. By the 1900s, roughly 50 trains stopped at the station, carrying mail, passengers and freight from Trenton, Philadelphia and New York and was round the clock staffed by an agent and three clerks. From 1888 to 1931 the stationmaster was Frank Butler Jamison. In 1911,
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stopped at the station during his Bull Moose Campaign. After World War I, automobile ownership rose and the station declined, cutting Sunday services in 1945. In 1962, Reading Railroad had only two trains stopping at the station and in 1967 discontinued service completely. The station is located along the CSX Trenton Subdivision and
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which
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plans to revive for commuter rail service, however these plans do not include the reopening of the station, which is now a private residence.


Architecture

The station is built of sandstone with a
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and center pavilion in the Victorian style. It is a three-story building that is a focal point in the landscape of the town. The interior was simply designed with vertical beadboard. By the mid-1970s, the building had been remodeled as a private residence. It is similar in style to the Hopewell station, completed in 1876 in Hopewell, New Jersey.


See also

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Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad The National Railway or National Air Line Railroad was a planned railroad between New York City and Washington, D.C. in the United States around 1870. Part of it was eventually built from New York to Philadelphia by the Delaware and Bound Brook R ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer County, New Jersey __NOTOC__ This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, New Jerse ...


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