Platforms 1 bay island platform Parking 1900 spaces Opened 15 February 1969 | Connections NJT Buses Bicycle facilities Yes Tracks 3 | |
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Location 2600 Ferry Avenue
Camden, New Jersey Owned by Delaware River Port Authority Address Camden, NJ 08103, United States Owner Delaware River Port Authority Similar Woodcrest station, Lindenwold station, City Hall station, 15–16th & Locust station, Walter Rand Transport | ||
Ferry Avenue is a PATCO Speedline station located in Camden and Woodlynne, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States.
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Station layout
The fare control 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 August 9, 1995, Philadelphia Inquirer truck driver Joseph Sweeney, 49, was fatally beaten during a robbery while delivering newspapers.
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.
On January 12, 2005, Thomas and Toliver pleaded guilty in New Jersey Superior Court in order to avoid the death penalty.