New York Railroad Archive

Pendleton Center, NY

Pendleton Center (sometimes spelled “Centre”), NY is village in Niagara County and was a station on the Erie Railroad‘s Lockport Branch. In 1898 the Erie Lockport Branch was leased by the Buffalo and Lockport Railway, an electric railroad.

Detail of a 1908 map showing the location of the Pendleton Center station. Author’s illustration from the New century atlas, Niagara County, New York.

The station was located on the north side of the tracks just east of Campbell Boulevard. The not-so-great photo below is the only one I can find of the station.

Photo from an 1898 magazine showing the Erie Railroad station at Pendleton Centre, NY. Western Electrician. Chicago, IL. September 3, 1898.

Cover: Detail of a 1901 topographic map showing the route of the Erie Railroad’s Lockport Branch passing through Pendleton Center, NY. Author’s illustration from a 1901 topographic map.