I just moved into Mount Airy and was talking to one of my neighbors who told me the Carpenter Lane Station may be rehabilitated by a private company. I've been unable to find any information about this online. And a visit the the West Mount Airy Neighbors web site only gave me this disturbing article about cuts in R8 service. Does anyone know what the future of the Carpenter Lane Station might be?

for the time being the R8 is safe but SEPTA wants to cut it so it will come up again. personally, I'd love to see an R100 type of high speed trolley dwon 33rd st and under the parkway to center city. or tie it into the BSL using existing flying junctions. at any rate, sorry I can't shed more light on plans for the station.

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What is a flying junction?

Flying junction
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In U.S. railroad practice, a flying junction is a track configuration in which merging or crossing railroad lines provide track connections with each other without requiring trains to cross over in front of opposing traffic.

As its name implies, a flying junction accomplishes this separation by having individual tracks rise and /or fall to pass over or under other tracks. Simple flying junctions may simply have a single track pass over the mainline to avoid conflict, while complex flying junctions may have an elaborate infrastructure to allow multiple routings among a variety of tracks without trains coming into conflict.

The opposite of a flying junction is a level junction, where all tracks cross at grade and routings must be controlled by signals and an interlocking plant.

I asked the ticket agent about this yesterday, and she said that she has heard that a tenant, a real estate firm, might move in to the station's second floor. I asked if the station would remain a ticket-agent-staffed station, and she said that it would.

She didn't have any details about a timeline, though.

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I wanted to re-activate this thread because as someone moving very near the Carpenter station in March I am very interested in the R8 service and plans for the station itself. I must say I'm envious of the Allen Ln station with its coffee shop. And doesn't Upsal have a coffee shop as well? anyone know of any plans for the R8 or the Carpenter Station?

I imagine that even a simple coffee cart- a few big vacuum carafes of coffee, some pastries, etc.- would do bang-up business @ Carpenter, w/o requiring much overhead in terms of space.

Then again, to quote George Carlin, "I've got lots of good ideas; problem is, most of 'em suck."

Incidentally, the WMAN article link doesn't work.

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-Z

I have been daydreaming lately of coming across a small boatload of money and buying that 2nd story as an apartment. What a nice little fixer-upper: a little paint, a little cleaning and upkeep...
Oh, well.
Yes, a coffee/bakery would be great (I'm thinking of the R5 station at Wynnewood). Plenty of space downstairs for it.

yes, I see what you mean about the potential of this station being unrealized.....i just had a fabulous brunch today at Point of Destination Cafe....it would be nice to see the brunch/coffee and a paper in a pleasant place scene be replicated there.

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