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Philadelphia and Reading Railroad leased the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown on December 1, 1870. The company continued to exist on paper, and with the
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Plymouth Railroad became the Plymouth Branch under the Reading and has since been abandoned.
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770:Companies affiliated with the Reading Company
732:terminal (Broad Street and Washington Avenue)
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748:Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad
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519:Bean, Theodore Weber, ed. (1884).
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724:Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad
593:United States Railway Association
202:Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
147:Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
143:oldest railroads in North America
790:Railroads transferred to Conrail
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604:. Vol. 1. Washington, DC.
448:Barron, Joe (August 21, 2003).
775:Defunct Pennsylvania railroads
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718:North Pennsylvania Railroad
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