The Red Arrow’s West Chester Pike Trolley in Broomall: 1895–1954
The West Chester trolley, which served Marple township for more than half a century, had a large impact on the township’s early suburban development and has endured as a memory in Broomall’s collective consciousness more than half a century after it was replaced by the Route 104 bus....
Foxcroft Station & the Newtown Square Branch
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Newtown Square Branch passed through Marple from 1895 until 1963 and for many of those years it served a small flag stop called Foxcroft Station. Today, little is left of the railroad, but if you look closely, you can find remnants....