Reading Will Build New Station

1912.02.08 DR Phoenixville, PA

READING WILL BUILD STATION
New and Modern will
Be Erected within
Few Months
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Being Made on the reading
Division Include Handsome
Building and Better
Facilities Here.
Few residents of this section are
aware of or appreciate the large mature
and ___rps of the improvements which
are being made by the
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company on its
Reading Division, comprising as they do an
almost entire rebuilding, cutting and
__filling to widen the roadbed for a
complete four track system, the putting in
of new towers and systems for the
purpose of operating switches, etc. and
the rebuilding of all bridges, culverts
and trestles to allow the four tracks, and
also the erection of new stations at several
points, one of them, (?) the Republican
is able to state, being at Phoenixville.
For a period of about four years the
four-tracking of the Reading between
Philadelphia and Reading has been
proceeding, and now nothing remains
to complete a four track system except
to close up two or three short
gaps. Between Phoenixville and Philadelphia
remains only the arch bridge
over the Valley Creek at Valley Forge,
and the tracks are practically
completed between Miogo (?) and
Reading, South of Valley Forge, at
Pawling, has been erected a handsome
new station and one of the most modern
and complete towers on the entire
system. At Abrams has been established
an immediate yard for the better
handling of the freight traffic on this
division, and to relieve the congestion
in the city of Philadelphia, and there is
at that point track capacity for three
thousand cars. At Valley Forge also,
a new station is to be erected the coming
spring, one which will not only
adequately handle the traffic at that
point, but which will be in keeping to
architectural beauty, with the historic
interest attaching to that plans (?)
At or near Phoenixville some of the
most important and costly of the work
necessary to complete the four-track
system remains to be done. There is
an arch bridge over Bridge street to
be rebuilt, the curve at the station is
[to] be very much modified, and the tunnel
to be widened. At Council meeting, on
Tuesday night, a letter from counsel
for the P&R was read, making the
statement that work upon the arch
would comence within a short time,
and proceed through the coming Spring
and Summer. This letter was one to
Burough Solicitor Haviland, and
answered a communication of the letter in
regard to the present dangerous conditions,
and of course contained no information
regarding other improvements
contemplated.
The Reading officials have, however,
determined upon a new station here,
and the place have been made and
submitted to the officials. The old freight
sheds will be torn away entirely, and
the new building will be a handsome
and adequate one for the convenience
of passengers only. The curve in the
track approaching the station will
be made considerably less, and
in order to do this the tracks
will be moved some distance to the east,
and the station will also be erected to
the east, and south of its present location.
Another great improvement will
be the doing away with the
Pickering Valley railroad track on the
west of the station, and
Pickering Valley trains will run into the front of
the station and the _____- _____
___. The ____ __ ___ ______
___, ___ __ _____ ___ ____, ___ ___
____ ____ ____ ____, and it _____ be
said that the new station is a certainty.

Found by Herb Fry. Digitized by Heidi Sproat 11/06/2022.