Bethlehem Line

Bethlehem Line
Overview
Service typeCommuter rail
StatusDiscontinued
Last serviceJuly 27, 1981
Former operator(s)Conrail
SEPTA
Route
TerminiReading Terminal, Philadelphia, U.S.
Bethlehem Union Station, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Line(s) usedBethlehem Branch

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

Between 1978 and 1979, SEPTA extended service to Allentown. Service ended altogether in 1981 as SEPTA eliminated its former Reading diesel services. The Bethlehem Line is owned by SEPTA and is utilized for freight service by the Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad between Lansdale and Telford and the East Penn Railroad between Telford and Quakertown.

The Quakertown–Bethlehem section has been dormant since the early 1990s: several portions of the rail bed currently serve as the interim rail trails. It is not officially abandoned.


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