LUZERNE  COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad 		Current
Location		 Type Current
Use		 Date
Built		 Track
Status		 Building
Material		 More
Info
Avoca U.S. 11 C Business 1912 In Use Wood

Hazleton Corner of West Chestnut & South Vine Streets. F Business ???? In Use Brick  
Hunlock Creek East side of U.S. 11 across from the old post office. F Vacant ???? Gone Wood  
Pittston North side of Market Street between Lagrange and Spring Streets. F Civic 1903 Gone Brick  
West Nanticoke U.S. 11 C Business ???? Gone Wood  
Wilkes-Barre Market Street Square & Wilkes-Barre Blvd. P Vacant 1869 Aband. Brick/
Wood		  
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		 Notes
Alderson
(Harvey's Lake)		  
Archbald  
Ashley Ashley Station was on the mainline (milepost 169.25) and the Nanticoke Branch (MP 4.86)
Ashmore Was on the Hazleton Brach between Weatherly and Stockton. A five mile branch began here that went to Hazle Brook, Pink Ash Junction, Jeddo, Drifton and Freeland.
Bear Creek Photo shows stations and hotel.
Dallas  
Drifton  
Duryea  
Edwardsville Junction  
Freeland  
Hazleton Built in 1907 this station sat between Church and Laurel Streets. It was demolished in 1963.
Hicks Ferry This was probably a shelter-type station. Hick's Ferry was on the east side of the river across from Wapallopen.
Hudson Built in 1886, this was a combination passenger and freight station.
Jeansville In 1875 the station was on the west side of Main Street on the north side of the tracks. The 1875 map also shows another RR line going trough town a couple blocks north but paralel to the LV. That line is marked, "Old RR to Yorktown (not used)." Yorktown is now known as Audenried in Carbon Co. and this line may have been the Lehigh & Susquehanna as that RR is shown going through Yorktown.
Jeddo The station collapsed from heavy snow in the mid-1990s.
Kingston This station was located on the east side of the mainline, just north of the roundhouse.
Kingston  
Laurel Run Sat at the foot of the Northampton St. overpass at MP 161.29.
Lehigh Tannery There were stations on both sides of the river here about 700 feet from each other as the crow flies. The CNJ station was on the west side of the river (in Luzerne Co.), on the south side of Tannery Road, on the east side of the tracks. The LV station was on the east side of the river (in Carbon Co.) also on the south side of Tannery Road on the west side of the tracks.
Luzerne Station was on the Bowman's Creek Branch.
Miners Mills Station sat near East Main St. Burned down in Jan., 2000
Mountain Grove
(Wolften)		 The photo may be of the original Danville, Hazleton & Wilkes Barre station. The station was alternately known as Wolften in the early days and that station is shown on the 1876 map.
Mountain Top  
Nescopeck Built 1880 and was located on Broad Street. Passenger and freight stations as well as the tower were all torn down in 1968.
Pittston This combination station was at the corner of Kennedy Boulevard and Water Street. It was torn down when a new business was built there.
Pittston  
Pittston Junction In the photo, the building closest to the diamond is the LV passenger station. The LV freight station is behind it to the left. The DL&W station is to the right.
Plymouth  
Rocky Glen  
Sandy Run  
Shavertown  
Stockton The photo is shot looking west toward Hazleton just east of the current road crossing with the former LV Hazleton line with Hazle Creek to the right and the outline of the Hazleton Shaft Colliery in the distance to the right of center.
Tunnel Station At White Haven Tunnel. Also known as "UN" Tower.
Wanamie The narrow-gauge Wanamie Mine Railroad ran behind the station.
Wapwallopen  
West Pittston Sat on Susquehanna Avenue.
White Haven  
White Haven Torn down in the 1980s.
Wilkes-Barre Was near the corner of E. Pennsylvania Ave. and East Market Street. Torn down in mid-1960s. In its latter days it also served the D&H.
Wilkes-Barre Freight station. Sat on East Market Street
Wilkes-Barre Freight station.
Wilkes-Barre  
Wyoming The water tower in the background of the photo says "Nelson Brothers" which is now Diamond manufacturing.
Wyoming Station was off 8th Street in West Wyoming.
1895 LUZERNE COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

Avoca (D&H) - This is the third station to serve Avoca. It is now a pool supply company.