George School station

George School
Former railroad station
The George School station site as viewed in October 2009.
Location	George School, Middletown, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°12′44″N 74°56′20″W / 40.2123°N 74.9389°W / 40.2123; -74.9389Coordinates: 40°12′44″N 74°56′20″W / 40.2123°N 74.9389°W / 40.2123; -74.9389
Owned by	SEPTA
Tracks	1
Construction
Structure type	demolished
History
Opened	1905 (RDG)
Closed	January 14, 1983
Electrified	no
Services
Former services   Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Holland toward Reading Terminal Newtown Line Newtown Terminus Reading Railroad Holland toward Cheltenham Newtown Branch Newtown Terminus

George School station was a railroad station in at George School, a private Quaker boarding and day high school in Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Built by the Reading Railroad, it was later used by SEPTA Regional Rail. SEPTA closed the station and several others in 1983.

George School Station was a stop on the Reading Railroad's Newtown Line. It later became a part of SEPTA's Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line. The station, and all of those north of Fox Chase, was closed on January 14, 1983, due to failing diesel train equipment.

In addition, a labor dispute began within the SEPTA organization when the transit operator inherited 1,700 displaced employees from Conrail. SEPTA insisted on utilizing transit operators from the Broad Street Subway to operate Fox Chase-Newtown diesel trains, while Conrail requested that railroad motormen run the service. When a federal court ruled that SEPTA had to use Conrail employees in order to offer job assurance, SEPTA cancelled Fox Chase-Newtown trains. Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was "temporarily suspended" at that time, and George School Station still appears in publicly posted tariffs.

Although rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light, and the Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus service ended in 1999.