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Pendleton Center, NY

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

Pendleton Center (sometimes spelled “Centre”), NY is hamlet in the town of Pendleton, Niagara County and was a station on the Erie Railroad‘s Lockport Branch. The station was located on the north side of the tracks just east of Campbell Boulevard. The not-so-great photo above is the only one I can find of the station.

History

The line was constructed in 1878 by the Lockport and Buffalo Railroad. In 1898 it was leased by the Buffalo and Lockport Railway, an electric railroad. The line was later operated by the Buffalo, Lockport and Olcott Beach Railway, the Buffalo & Niagara Electric Street Railway, and the International Railway Company. In 1951 the Erie Railroad began operating the line again and the line was operated by the Erie Lackawanna Railroad (1960 – 1976) before being abandoned in the mid-1970s with the creation of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail).

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.

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