The city of Easton obtained permission from Norfolk Southern Railway to clean up the property.

[1] The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) had an Easton station of its own on the other side of the Lehigh River.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad opened its original line between Allentown and Easton in 1855; the first passenger train ran between the two cities on June 11.

[2] For the first year the Lehigh Valley used what the chief engineer Robert H. Sayre described as a "temporary passenger depot".

[3] A permanent station, built by the CNJ on Lehigh Valley land, opened toward the end of 1856.