Ferry Avenue station

Ferry Avenue is a PATCO Lindenwold Line station located in Camden and Woodlynne, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It is near the busy US Route 130 and situated in a semi-poor area of Camden.

Ferry Avenue
PATCO rapid transit station
Ferry Avenue station viewed from the parking lot
Location	2600 Ferry Avenue Camden, New Jersey
Coordinates	39°55′22″N 75°5′30″W
Owned by	Delaware River Port Authority
Platforms	1 bay island platform
Tracks	3 (1 pocket track)
Connections	NJT Buses
Construction
Parking	1900 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	February 15, 1969[1]
Electrified	750 volts DC
Services
Preceding station Delaware River Port Authority Following station Broadway toward 15–16th & Locust PATCO Speedline Local Collingswood toward Lindenwold PATCO Speedline Philadelphia Express Woodcrest One-way operation
Location
Ferry Avenue Location within Philadelphia

Station layout

The east end of the pocket track

The fare control is located at street level and the platform is elevated. For most of the platform, there are two tracks, serving the Philadelphia and Lindenwold bound trains. There is also a third track that starts some halfway down the platform. The platform splits and the train can come up into this spot. It was once used by Ferry Avenue Local trains that originated here and went to Philadelphia, but the service has been discontinued. The third track is now used to store a train mid-day.

P Platform level	Westbound	←      PATCO Speedline toward 15–16th & Locust (Broadway)
	Island platform
	Bidrectional	→ No regular service
	Island platform
	Eastbound	→      PATCO Speedline toward Lindenwold (Collingswood) →
G	Street level	Station house, fare control, parking, buses

Crime

On August 9, 1995, Philadelphia Inquirer truck driver Joseph Sweeney, 49, was fatally beaten during a robbery while delivering newspapers.[2]

On November 12, 2001, Christine Lynn Eberle, 27, a PATCO commuter and resident of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey was abducted from the station's parking lot and killed. Two men, Ryshaone H. Thomas and Marcus Toliver, were charged with murder, robbery, kidnapping and weapons offenses in connection with the crime.[3][4]

On January 12, 2005, Thomas and Toliver pleaded guilty in New Jersey Superior Court in order to avoid the death penalty.[5]

New Jersey Transit Bus connections

• 403, 451, 453[6]

References

1. Baisden, Cheryl L. (2009). Images of America: Delaware River Port Authority. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 9780738565811.
2. "Second man held in PATCO rider's abduction", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 2001
3. "Second man held in PATCO rider's abduction, killing", The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 2001
4. "2 indicted in commuter killing", The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 15, 2002
5. "Plea deal in PATCO slaying", The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 13, 2005
6. "453 Timetable" (PDF). NJ Transit. Retrieved 5 August 2011.

External links

• Ferry Avenue (PATCO)
• Station from Google Maps Street View