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The Cornwall Railroad acquired the Cornwall and Mount Hope Railroad in 1886, extending its line another 5 miles (8.0 km) to Mount Hope, Pennsylvania, where it interchanged with the Reading and Columbia Railroad. [5] Cornwall Railroad passenger trains used the Reading station in Lebanon until the end of passenger service on January 29, 1929.
One of the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge 4-4-0 locomotives of the Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway. The Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge line of the Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad in the state of Pennsylvania that operated between 1889 and 1915 under the parent Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad Company.
SEPTA (Philadelphia mass transit agency that operates SEPTA Regional Rail commuter lines, the Philadelphia Subway, and a variety of suburban light rail lines) Strasburg Railroad (heritage railroad) Tioga Central Railroad (heritage railroad) Wanamaker, Kempton and Southern Railroad (heritage railroad) West Chester Railroad (heritage railroad)
This historic train station was designed by George Watson Hewitt and built in 1885 by the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad. It was then expanded in 1912. A two-story, brick, brownstone and terra cotta building designed in an eclectic Victorian style that reflects seventeenth-century Flemish, Romanesque, and Chateauesque influences, it features a broad porch roof with ornamental iron brackets. [2]
When Pennsylvania first legislated routes in 1911, present-day PA 117 was not given a route number. [4] PA 117 was designated in 1928 to run from PA 5 (now US 322) in Campbelltown north to US 22 (now US 422) in Palmyra, following Palmyra Road and South Railroad Street while PA 853 was designated to run from Mount Gretna east to PA 72 west of Cornwall. [5]
The Cornwall Railway was a 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, England, built in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was constantly beset with shortage of capital for the construction, and was eventually forced to sell its line to the dominant Great Western Railway .
Under the new arrangement, CSX would still move freight north from Philadelphia while the PN would serve customers in Lansdale, Hatfield, Souderton, Telford and Warminster. In addition, PN serves as a bridge route for rail traffic bound for the East Penn Railroad's Quakertown line, and the New Hope Railroad. [4]
Cornwall was initially settled by Peter Grubb in 1734. [4] Peter was a Chester County stonemason who came to, what was then Lancaster County , in search of high quality stone for quarrying . First building his house and then a store, he discovered magnetite iron ore nearby and decided to test its quality, he found the ore to be exceedingly pure.