Bycot station

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Bycot
Former Reading Railroad station
General information
LocationHolicong Road, Buckingham Township, Pennsylvania
Platforms1
Construction
Structure typeDepot
History
Opened1891
Closed1952
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Buckingham
toward Philadelphia
New Hope Branch Lahaska
toward New Hope

Bycot was a station on the Reading Company's New Hope Branch. The line on which the station was located is now the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad. Bycot was the smallest staffed station on the New Hope Branch, with a small wooden platform and freight house. [1]

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References

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