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Ferry Avenue station

Ferry Avenue
Ferry Avenue Station.JPG
Ferry Avenue station viewed from the parking lot
Location 2600 Ferry Avenue
Camden, New Jersey
Coordinates 39°55′22″N 75°5′30″W / 39.92278°N 75.09167°W / 39.92278; -75.09167Coordinates: 39°55′22″N 75°5′30″W / 39.92278°N 75.09167°W / 39.92278; -75.09167
Owned by Delaware River Port Authority
Platforms 1 bay island platform
Tracks 3 (1 unused)
Connections NJT Bus NJT Buses
Construction
Parking 1900 spaces
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened February 15, 1969
Electrified 750 volts DC
Services
Preceding station   PATCO   Following station
PATCO Speedline
Local
toward Lindenwold
PATCO Speedline
Philadelphia Express
toward Lindenwold

Ferry Avenue is a PATCO Speedline station located in Camden and Woodlynne, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.

The fare control is located at street level and the platform is elevated. For most of the platform, there are two tracks, serving the Philadelphia and Lindenwold bound trains. There is also a third track that starts some halfway down the platform. The platform splits and the train can come up into this spot. It was once used by Ferry Avenue Local trains that originated here and went to Philadelphia, but the service has been discontinued. The third track is now used to store a train mid-day.

on August 9, 1995, Philadelphia Inquirer truck driver Joseph Sweeney, 49, was fatally beaten during a robbery while delivering newspapers.

On November 12, 2001, Christine Lynn Eberle, 27, a PATCO commuter and resident of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey was abducted from the station's parking lot and killed. Two men, Ryshaone H. Thomas and Marcus Toliver, where charged with murder, robbery, kidnapping and weapons offenses in connection with the crime.

On January 12, 2005, Thomas and Toliver pleaded guilty in New Jersey Superior Court in order to avoid the death penalty.


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