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===Transportation=== ====Highway and bus==== [[File:2022-07-17 13 20 50 View south along U.S. Route 13 (DuPont Highway) just south of Delaware Avenue in Harrington, Kent County, Delaware.jpg|thumb|left|US 13 southbound in Harrington]] [[U.S. Route 13 in Delaware|U.S. Route 13]] (Dupont Highway) serves as the main north–south road in Harrington, heading north toward [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]] and south toward [[Salisbury, Maryland]]. [[Delaware Route 14]] serves as the main east–west road in Harrington, heading west toward [[Denton, Maryland]] and east toward [[Milford, Delaware|Milford]].<ref>{{Delaware road map|year=2008}}</ref> [[DART First State]] provides bus service to Harrington along Route 117, which heads north toward [[Camden, Delaware|Camden]] and connects to the local bus routes serving the Dover area.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kent County Bus System Guide|publisher=DART First State|url=https://www.dartfirststate.com/information/routes/pdfs/winter/rt999.pdf?date=1523320189247|access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref> ====Railroad==== Harrington is a railroad junction of the north–south running [[Delmarva Central Railroad]] that runs between [[Porter, Delaware|Porter]], near Wilmington to [[Pocomoke City, Maryland]]. The Indian River Subdivision branches at Harrington from the Delmarva Subdivision toward the coast then turns south and runs through Georgetown to [[Frankford, Delaware]]. The Delmarva Central Railroad, which is based in [[Oakmont, Pennsylvania]], is locally managed from offices in Harrington and some of its freight operations are based out of the town.<ref name=dcr>{{cite web|title=Delmarva Central Railroad|date=8 November 2016 |publisher=Carload Express|url=http://carloadexpress.com/railroads/delmarva-central-railroad/|access-date=March 27, 2017}}</ref> As of 2019, the former [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] (PRR) tower adjacent to the Harrington depot that at one time manually controlled the junction's switches and signals is now a preserved heritage item along with an adjacent PRR caboose in its original Tuscan Red color. Into the 1950s, the PRR's ''[[Del-Mar-Va Express]]'' steam powered passenger train that ran between [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] and [[Cape Charles, Virginia]] stopped at Harrington.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Pennsylvania Railroad, Table 65|journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=87 |issue=7 |date=December 1954}}</ref>
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