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Batavia station (Lehigh Valley Railroad)

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Batavia
General information
Line(s)
History
OpenedAugust 31, 1892 (1892-08-31)
ClosedMay 12, 1959 (1959-05-12)
Former lines
Preceding station Lehigh Valley Railroad Following station
Depew
toward Buffalo
Main Line Rochester Junction
Longwood
toward Buffalo
Stafford

Batavia station was a Lehigh Valley Railroad station in Batavia, New York, located on the Lehigh Valley main line.

The Lehigh Valley reached Batavia on August 31, 1892.[1] For the next several years Batavia was an important interchange point with the New York Central Railroad, with the Lehigh Valley Railroad exchanging cars bound for Canada. The completion of the Depew and Tonawanda Railroad in 1896 eliminated this practice.[2] Batavia was one of many stations which lost its passenger service on May 12, 1959, when the Lehigh Valley eliminated 60% of its remaining passenger trains, including all but one round-trip west of Lehighton, Pennsylvania.[3][4] Conrail, which took over the Lehigh Valley's operations in 1976, continued to use the old station as a warehouse until it was destroyed by arson in 1979.[5]

Notes

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  1. ^ "First train to pass Lehigh road. The Batavia station is at the Walnut Street crossing" (PDF). Daily News. August 31, 1892.
  2. ^ Archer 1977, pp. 135–138
  3. ^ Archer 1977, pp. 274–275
  4. ^ "Passenger service ended here" (PDF). Daily News. May 13, 1959.
  5. ^ "Fire destroys Conrail warehouse". Democrat and Chronicle. November 2, 1979. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Free access icon

References

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  • Archer, Robert F. (1977). The History of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Berkeley: Howell-North Books. ISBN 978-0-8310-7113-4.