Ferry Avenue (PATCO station)

Infobox Station
name= Ferry Avenue


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image_caption=
address= 2600 Ferry Ave
Camden, New Jersey
coordinates=coord|39|55|22|N|75|5|30|W|type:railwaystation_region:US-NJ|display=inline,title
line=rail color box|system=PATCO|line=Speedline
other=NJT Buses
platform= 1 island platform
(Splits to 2 platforms for discontinued "Ferry Ave Local")
tracks=2
1 unused
owned=Port Authority Transit Corporation
services=s-rail|title=PATCO

Ferry Avenue is a PATCO High-Speedline station located in Camden, New Jersey.

Layout

The platform is located at street level and the platform is elevated. For most of the platform, there are two tracks, serving the Philadelphia and Lindenwold bound trains. There is also a third track that starts some halfway down the platform. The platform splits and the train can come up into this spot. It was once used by Ferry Avenue Local trains that originated here and went to Philadelphia, but the service has been discontinued. The third track is now used to store a train mid-day.

Crime

On November 12 2001, Christine Lynn Eberle, 27, a PATCO commuter and resident of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey was abducted from the station's parking lot and killed. Two men, Ryshaone H. Thomas and Marcus Toliver, where charged with murder, robbery, kidnapping and weapons offenses in connection with the crime. [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EFD754130329EF6&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Second man held in PATCO rider's abduction, killing"] , "The Philadelphia Inquirer", November 16 2001] [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F586B15618367F4&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "2 indicted in commuter killing"] , "The Philadelphia Inquirer", August 15 2002]

On January 12 2005, Thomas and Toliver pled guilty in New Jersey Superior Court in order to avoid the death penalty. [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1079D10AB4577F9D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Plea deal in PATCO slaying"] , "The Philadelphia Inquirer", January 13 2005]

=New Jersey Transit Bus Connections=

*403 and 451

References

External links

* [http://www.ridepatco.org/ferryave.asp Ferry Avenue (PATCO)]