West Chester Railroad

 tourism, railway, interesting place, historical layer / disappeared object

www.westchesterrr.net/

The West Chester Railroad runs on a segment of the former Pennsylvania Railroad's (now SEPTA) West Chester branch between Glen Mills and West Chester.

Over 160 years ago when most people in this country had never seen or heard of a Railroad, the businessmen and community leaders of West Chester, PA. chartered the "West Chester Railroad Company." It became one of the nation's earliest railroads through an act in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1831. A quarter century later, West Chester got its second railroad, the "West Chester & Philadelphia Railroad," which opened on November 11, 1858. Both became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system by 1881, when they were known as the "Frazer branch" and "Media branch," respectively.