The Pottstown station, now referred to as the Charles W. Dickinson Transportation Center, is a bus terminal of the

Pottstown Area Rapid Transit Pottstown Area Rapid Transit (PART) is a public transit agency providing bus service in the Pottstown, Pennsylvania, area. It is owned by the borough of Pottstown and runs Monday through Saturday, excluding major holidays. PART provides a connecti ...

system. It is located in Pottstown,

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History and notable features

The station was built in 1928 as a train station for the

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and was active long enough to be served by

SEPTA diesel service The SEPTA Regional Rail system is a commuter rail network owned by SEPTA and serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its suburbs and satellite towns ...

trains until 1981. It was added to the

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on January 12, 1984, as the Reading Railroad Pottstown Station, and is located in the Old Pottstown Historic District, close to the

Schuylkill River Trail The Schuylkill River Trail ( , ) is a multi-use trail along the banks of the Schuylkill River in southeastern Pennsylvania. Partially complete, the trail is ultimately planned to run about from the river's headwaters in Schuylkill County, Penns ...

."Motor Buses from Reading to Philadelphia", ''Evening Herald'', August 14, 1929. Pottstown RDG Station

The station was designed in the

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style by the railroad's engineering staff, rather than by an outside architect. Stations built in the nineteenth century by the Reading Railroad had usually been designed by outside architects, including

Frank Furness Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 – June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinately scaled ...

. During the twentieth century, the railroad became less profitable and most stations were designed in simpler styles in-house.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Former Reading Company stations Former SEPTA Regional Rail stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1928 National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Former railway stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Pottstown, Pennsylvania Railway stations in the United States closed in 1981

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