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River Map and Water Trail Guide update: ... HAER PA-535: Norristown Dam Bridgeport and Norristown ... Bridge PA 61: Pottsville 2015
This is a route-map template for the Schuylkill River, a waterway in Pennsylvania, the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Norristown is a municipality with home rule status and the county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. [3] Located along the Schuylkill River, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) from Philadelphia, Norristown had a population of 35,748 as of the 2020 census.
The Schuylkill River Bridge (also known as the Diamond Run Viaduct) [1] is a bridge that carries the Pennsylvania Turnpike across the Schuylkill River. [2]This section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which is located between two major interchanges, became "the most heavily traveled four-lane section of the turnpike" following its opening, according to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
In summer 2013, SEPTA closed the bridge (the Bridgeport Viaduct) carrying the Norristown High Speed Line over the Schuylkill River for four months. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The bridge, which was built in 1911, had been deteriorating and needed to be rebuilt at a cost upwards of $30 million, though this repair project was budgeted at $7.5 million. [ 18 ]
The Norristown Branch is a railway line in Pennsylvania. It runs 14.6 miles (23.5 km) from a junction with the SEPTA Main Line in North Philadelphia to Norristown, Pennsylvania . It was originally built by the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad (PG&N) in 1834, and was a part of the Reading Company system from 1870 until 1976.
Schuylkill Expressway eastbound entering the 30th Street Station structure in Philadelphia. Past the City Avenue interchange, I-76 enters Philadelphia and becomes concurrent with US 1, with the Schuylkill Expressway widening from four lanes to eight lanes and running between the West Falls Yard on Norfolk Southern Railway's Harrisburg Line and the river to the north and wooded areas of ...
This line reached Manayunk on October 18, 1834, and Norristown on August 15, 1835. [1] The PG&N's Philadelphia depot was situated at Ninth Street and Green Street. [4] Through the Swedes Ford Bridge Company, which it leased, the PG&N built a bridge over the Schuylkill River between Norristown and Bridgeport, Pennsylvania.