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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Locale | Pennsylvania |
| Dates of operation | 1871–1906 |
| Successor | Reading Railroad |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Length | 11.3 miles (18.2 kilometres) |
The Pickering Valley Railroad was a short line railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It ran from Phoenixville to Byers, near Eagle, in Upper Uwchlan Township, a distance of approximately 11 miles (18 km),[1] over which distance it gained 316 feet (96 m) in elevation.[2] Operated as a unit of the Reading Railroad, the Pickering Valley was not a great success; passenger service was discontinued in 1934, and most of the line was abandoned in 1948. The remainder of the line was closed in the 1980s; little remains today.
- ^ Greenwood, A.L., "The railroads of Chester County", History Quarterly, Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society, February, 1955 Volume 7 Number 4, Pages 86–94.
- ^ Persifor Frazer, "Report of a Geological Survey of Chester County", Chap. 1 in: J.P. Lesley, ed., The Geology of Chester County: After the Surveys of Henry D. Rogers, Persifor Frazer, and Charles E. Hall, Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, Harrisburg, 1883. Pp. 23, 26.