About this Event
Be where it happened 100 years later.
Start: Jenkintown Wyncote Station
Finish: Willow Grove or Jenkintown Wyncote Station
Distance: 14-18mi
Return: SEPTA train
Coordinator: Charles Updike
Transit: SEPTA from Philly, Doylestown, Warminster or West Trenton to Jenkintown. Connect to 30th St Station with Amtrak, Megabus and SEPTA/NJT connections. Connect in Trenton from NJTransit train. Return via SEPTA bus or rail, or on foot.
On the snowy morning of December 5th, 1921, a horrific train disaster in a place called the Gulch along the Pennypack Creek took the lives of a train full of commuters heading to work and changed rail travel in the United States forever. On the 100th anniversary, we will walk to the site of the event and tell the story of why it happened, how it happened, and the impact that it had on train passengers ever since. Along the way we will enjoy a peaceful wooded trail and a few other points of interest. Paved and gravel, sidewalk and trail walking.
Schedule:
9am: 10 mile walk from Jenkintown to wreck site and Lord’s New Church
1:30pm: Railroad historian Larry Eastwood will offer a presentation and Q&A session at Lord’s New Church. In order to attend, you must register at Pennypack Trust (click here) by December 3. Society and Trust members are FREE, others $10. Space is limited.
Or you may opt out and continue on to Willow Grove Station, or attend the free walk and ceremony after.
2:45pm: A short walk back to the wreck site led by Old York Road Historical Society President, David Rowland, less than a mile
3pm: Anniversary ceremony
3:30pm Walk to Willow Grove Station. 4mi
Return to Jenkintown from Willow Grove by rail, a short ride on the #55 bus, or an additional four miles on foot.
Jenkintown-Wyncote Station is a stop on the Doylestown, Warminster and West Trenton lines. Willow Grove is on the Warminster line.
Highlights:
- Pennypack Creek
- Fox Chase Farm
- Lorimer Park
- Lenni Lenape Council Rock
- Mini covered bridge
- Bryn Athyn
- The Gulch
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Jenkintown-Wyncote Station, 2 Greenwood Avenue, Glenside, United States
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