LEHIGH COUNTY

EXISTING STATIONS
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Station Name	Original Railroad	Current Location	Type	Current Use	Date Built	Track Status	Building Material	More Info
Allentown	AND	Race & Hamilton Streets (GPS: 40.604609, -75.462410)	P	Restaurant	1890	Gone	Stone/ Brick
Bethlehem		61 West Lehigh Street (GPS: 40.616526, -75.382461)	P	Restaurant	1873	In Use	Brick
Bethlehem		55 West Lehigh Street (GPS: 40.616776, -75.382265)	F	Storage	1910	Gone	Brick
Catasauqua (W. Catasauqua)		Off PA143 at Kistler Valley Road and Creek Road, Kempton in Berks County	C	Railroad	????	In Use	Wood
Catasauqua		South corner of Pine and Front Streets (GPS: 40.653820, -75.475901)	F	Unknown	????	Gone	Brick
Chapman		North side of Memorial Road, east of Farm Bureau Road (GPS: 40.589271, -75.599014)	F	Business	????	Gone	Wood
East Allentown		455 Hanover Avenue (GPS: 40.613182, -75.448106)	F	Business	????	Gone	Brick
Emmaus		525 West Jubilee Street (GPS: 40.533165, -75.493569)	P	Business	????	In Use	Wood
Haines		SE of the intersection of Route 100 and Schantz Road in Fogelsville	P	????	????	????	Wood
Jacksonville		Donats Peak Road (County Route 4037)	P	Residence	????	Gone	Wood
Trexlertown		Adjacent to Route 100	F	Business	????	Gone	Wood
Tripoli (NEW TRIPOLI)		Ontelaunee Park off King's Highway (PA143) (GPS: 40.680037, -75.761094)	C	Civic	????	None	Wood
Wanamaker		Levan Street	C	Business/ Museum	1874	In Use	Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station Name	Original Railroad	Notes
Alburtis		Built in 1859, the station was modified in later years. It was on the east side of Main Street at GPS: 40.511814, -75.603778.
Allentown (E. Allentown)		The original passenger station (GPS: 40.606474, -75.453175) and freight station (GPS: 40.606548, -75.452888) here was at the corner of Lehigh (now East Hamilton) and Front Street (now Albert Street). See this 1885 map section for location. The freight station is still shown standing as of the 1911 Sanborn map.
Allentown	AND	There was a large joint freight house on the SE corner of Race and Linden Streets (GPS: 40.606199, -75.462635) diagonally across the intersection from the LV freight house.
Allentown (Gordon St.)		There was a passenger station on the south side of West Gordon Street on the east side of the tracks (what is now American Parkway) (GPS: 40.610341, -75.464423). The station is shown on the 1891, 1897, and 1911 maps.
Allentown		The first LV passenger (GPS: 40.604073, -75.458168) and freight stations (GPS: 40.604563, -75.458122) were on the south side of Union Street. See this 1885 map segment for details. The Union Street station served as a freight station for a time after the new station was built on Hamilton Street in 1889 and survived until it was demolished in 1942 after being used for storage and then sitting vacant for many years. Photo is of station being demolished in 1942.
Allentown		Built in 1899, this station was located at the Hamilton Street bridge over Jordan Creek (GPS: 40.604036, -75.464336). Passenger service to this station ended in 1961. It was subsequently torn down in 1972. This was the second LV passenger station in Allentown with the first being on Union Street.
Allentown (Linden St.)		There was a freight house on the NW corner of Linden and Race Streets (GPS: 40.606415, -75.463253).
Allentown (Gordon St.)		There was a passenger station on the south side of West Gordon Street between North Jordan Street and the bridge over Jordan Creek (GPS: 40.609767, -75.465898). It was on the east side of the tracks. The station is shown on the 1891, 1897, and 1911 maps.
Allentown (E.P. Junction)		See this map segment from 1885 for the location of this station.
Best		This station was at the corner of Best Station Road and County Bridge Road at GPS: 40.724795, -75.653627. As of 2022, the barn in the photo was still standing.
Bethlehem		This combination passenger and freight station sat under the old Main Street access ramp on the north side of Spring Street (formerly Vineyard) at GPS: 40.618027, -75.384190. One of the bridge's support piers was in the middle of the station and protruded through the roof. The station was just over the border in Lehigh County. This was primarily known as a freight station, but in the one older photo, the building is labeled as "passenger and freight station."
Breinigsville		Bulit in 1860.
Catasauqua (W. Catasauqua)		The first station here was near the river just SE of the Pine Street bridge at GPS: 40.651904, -75.478327. It was torn down in 1907.
Catasauqua (W. Catasauqua)		This station, built in 1907, was essentially in the same location as the original station, just a bit closer to the river. Both stations stood next to each other for a short time as the old station was in service while the new one was being built. The Reading station was across the tracks as can be seen in one of the photos. The 1907 LV station was closed in 1938 and torn down in 1941 after serving for a mere 31 years.
Catasauqua (W. Catasauqua)		There was an LCL freight station here.
Catasauqua		The freight station was on the SW side of Front Street just SE of Strawberry Street at GPS: 40.653603, -75.475150. The original building on this site was a Temperance Hall which was later converted into a U.S. Express office. Sometime between 1902-1908 that building was either modified into the LV freight station or the LV freight station was built on the same site. The old and new buildings on the site have similar profiles on the old maps. The building was gone by 1931.
Catasauqua		This combination station sat just to the south of Pine Street on the SW side of the tracks at GPS: 40.652791, -75.477181. It was closed for passenger service in 1948, closed for freight service in 1952, and demolished in 1955.
Catasauqua		The 1913 Sanborn map shows what appears to be (at the time) a freight station on the SE side of Race Street on the NE side of the tracks at GPS: 40.647960, -75.469043.
Cementon		This station was on the north side of Main Street on the east side of the tracks at GPS: 40.690156, -75.505844. It was built in 1911.
Centre Valley
Chapman		The station was built in 1860 and enlarged in 1907.
Coopersburg		Built in 1867.
Coplay		This station was north of the Chestnut Street bridge ramp at GPS: 40.676041, -75.490944. This station also served the Ironton Railroad. Also see listing below.
Coplay		Richard Back writes: "In my research and history, published in 2013 on the Ironton Railroad Co., I found no depot structures on the Ironton RR. I always thought that maybe the railroad built shelters quickly at busier points and maybe they are shown on old valuation reports, but never found anything. There is a 1911 and 1919 property map. On the 1919 map, the Ironton Railroad had scheduled or flag stops at 19 sites along its 12 mile line, but none of these sites had physical buildings shown built by the Ironton railroad for passenger service. The 1919 map of the railroad shows no such stations, but does show all other types of extant structures, water towers, conductor offices, section houses, freight sheds, engine house, office, coal docks, weight scales, etc. The railroad's passenger train did stop between the company office building and the Hokendauqua Lehigh Valley Railroad Station and then Ironton trains made connections at Lehigh Valley Coplay Station. It is the only physical train station I've found that Ironton stopped at. The railroad had tiny freight sheds located at Siegersville and Ironton and is rumored to have used the basement of its general office at Hokendauqua as a freight area. Ironton did have a less than a car load freight station at West Catasauqua village in Whitehall Township. The Passenger service was an afterthought, from 1898 until 1920 and was mainly a working-mans shuttle.
Coplay
Corning
Crane
Dillinger		Built in 1875.
Egypt		There was a small freight shed here.
Emmaus		The freight station was across the tracks to the north of the existing passenger station. It was at GPS: 40.533479, -75.493479.
Emmaus		This station was on the SW side of 5th Street on the north side of the tracks at GPS: 40.531380, -75.491239.
EmMaus Junction
Fullerton		This station was torn down sometime between 2006-2009. It was located on Lehigh Avenue across from "Jazz Circle" (Cody Way). There is a parking lot at the location now (2009). If the station's last location was there, it had been moved as old maps show that its original location was on the east side of Lehigh Avenue north of Franklin Street at GPS: 40.639527, -75.465992. The 1913 map marks the building as "formerly RR depot, vacant."
Germansville		In the early years, this station was known as Lehigh Exchange.
Guth		Built in 1959.
Hokendauqua		This station was built in 1883.
Hokendauqua		The railroad may have used the basement of its offices here as a freight area.
Hosensack Station
Ironton		The railroad had only a small freight shed here.
Laros		On a branch off the Catasauqua & Fogelsville RR.
Laurys Station		This station was built in 1855. It was off Mauser Street at approximately GPS: 40.721739, -75.527334.
Lehigh Gap		Torn down in 1960 after serving as Lou's Market for several years.
Lehigh Gap		This was the original LV station. It was attached to a residence.
Lehigh Gap		This freight station sat on the east side of Paint Mill Road at GPS: 40.779754, -75.607957. It was in poor condition and torn/fell down sometime between 2002-2004.
Lochland		This station was between New Tripoli and Germansville.
Lynnport		This passenger station was built in 1878. It was on the east side of PA863 at GPS: 40.674734, -75.804929.
Lynnport		The freight station was on the west side of PA863 at GPS: 40.674421, -75.805224.
Macungie		This station was ont he south side of the tracks at the intersection of North Chruch Street and Mill Street at GPS: 40.517274, -75.556134.
Mickley's		A shelter was built here in 1911.
Rockdale
Saucon
Seiple
Siegersville		The railroad has only a small freight shed here.
Slatington	AND AND	The station was built in 1862 and was destroyed in a derailment in 1969. It also sevred the RDG Lehigh & Schuylkill Branch and sat at the corner of Main and Railroad Streets (GPS: 40.752574, -75.604861).
Slatington		There was a small Reading freight house on the north side of the tracks next to Trout Creek at GPS: 40.751725, -75.605083. This is shown on the 1913 Sanborn map.
Spring Creek (Merkle)
Treichlers		This station was near the end of Cove Road in the vicinity of GPS: 40.734038, -75.539330.
Treichlers		The station was on the south side of East Breadfruit Drive at GPS: 40.735216, -75.542616. It was across the river in Northampton County.
Trexlertown
Tripoli (New Tripoli)		The original station here was destroyed in March, 1898 when a shipment of dynamite exploded during the night.
Tripoli (New Tripoli)		This was the station that replaced the station listed above. It was built in the same location as the original station in 1898.
Vera Cruz		This station closed in 1932.
Walbert
Wallner		On a branch off the Catasauqua & Fogelsville RR.
Zionsville
1895 LEHIGH COUNTY RAILROAD MAP

Notes About Existing Stations... Allentown (CNJ/RDG) - Station opened March 17, 1890. Addition to the building was completed in 1915 and the station was sold by the RR in 1979. Bethlehem (CNJ) - Both CNJ stations are in Lehigh County abut 100 yards across Northampton/Lehigh line. Catasauqua (RDG) - Moved to Kempton (Berks County) for the WK&SRR in the mid 1960s. Its original location was just SE of the pine Street Bridge at GPS: 40.651742, -75.478635. This station dates to 1876 and the Catasauqua & Fogelsville RR days. Although it likely served as a freight station in later years, it probably was a combination station in the early years. See this photo for original location. Emmaus (RDG) - The appearance of this station has been heavily altered since its railroad days. Jacksonville (RDG) - Blue portion of house is station. The front trim matches Wanamaker station. Addition built on rear and another on east end.