Editing Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania (section)

===SEPTA service===
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Bryn Athyn had commuter train service until January 14, 1983. Service was suspended due to failing train equipment resulting in a lack of ridership. As of 2017, the train station is used as the Bryn Athyn post office.

Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light. The replacement bus service was far slower and less convenient than the train service it replaced, resulting in the shuttle bus being very unpopular. The travelling public never saw a bus service as a suitable replacement for a rail service.

In the ensuing years, there has been interest in resuming passenger service by [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bucks County]] officials. Neighboring [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Montgomery County]] officials are supportive of re-thinking the rail corridor as well, though the belief within [[SEPTA]] management is that the section through [[Lorimer Park]] and [[Walnut Hill (SEPTA station)|Walnut Hill Station]] (the only sparsely populated section along the railway) will never generate enough riders to be feasible.

In September 2009, the [[Southampton, Pennsylvania|Southampton]]-based Pennsylvania Transit Expansion Coalition (PA-TEC) began discussions with township officials along the railway, as well as SEPTA officials, about the realistic possibility of resuming even minimal passenger service to relieve traffic congestion in the region. Plans call for completing the electrification to Newtown, as originally planned in the late 1970s. Both Bucks and Montgomery County officials, as well as state representatives, have been receptive to PA-TEC's efforts, despite SEPTA's overall reservations. However, SEPTA has also confirmed that they are indeed open to revisiting the line if there is strong political support in both counties.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091009081604/http://www.r8newtown.com/ r8newtown.com] </ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=February 2024}}

All plans for resuming the train service were dropped in 2014 when Montgomery County officials decided to extend the [[Pennypack Trail]] over the derelict rail bed.<ref>{{cite news |first = Dan |last = Clark |title = Montgomery County Commissioners Break Ground on Pennypack Trail Extension over SEPTA Newtown railroad line |work = The Times Herald |date = June 6, 2014 |url= http://www.timesherald.com/general-news/20140606/montgomery-county-commissioners-break-ground-on-pennypack-trail-extension}}</ref>

SEPTA operates the [[SEPTA Route 24|Route 24]] bus, a bus that goes from [[Frankford Transportation Center]] in [[Northeast Philadelphia]] to Southampton. The Route 24 bus goes along Huntingdon Pike while in Bryn Athyn.<ref>{{Cite web |title=February 27, 2022 24 Southampton and Rockledge to Frankford Transportation Center |url=https://www.septa.org/schedules/bus/pdf/024.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831092332/https://www.septa.org/schedules/bus/pdf/024.pdf |archive-date=August 31, 2022 |website=septa.org}}</ref>