Built by the Reading Railroad, it later served SEPTA Regional Rail's Fox Chase/Newtown Line.

In the railroad's original plans, the line was to continue to the north, but this expansion was never built.

SEPTA insisted on utilizing transit operators from the Broad Street Subway as a cost-saving factor, while Conrail requested that railroad engineers run the service.

This was a result of a labor dispute that began when SEPTA inherited approximately 1,700 displaced employees from Conrail.

[3] Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was cancelled at that time, and the Newtown station still appears in publicly posted tariffs.