Weirton Junction Station Submitted By Julia Heaton Krutilla fkrutill@weir.net ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Steubenville Herald-Star, June 22, 1927, pg. 9 WEIRTON JUNCTION STATION TO BE OPENED ON MONDAY Wheeling Junction and Old Weirton Junction Stations to Be Abandoned: New Building Part of $1,000,000 Program of Pennsylvania Railroad Weirton, June 22 - The new Weirton Junction station of the Pennsylvania railroad will be officially opened for business on Monday morning, June 27. The Wheeling Junction and old Weirton Junction stations will discontinue business on Sunday evening. E. C. Austin ticket agent at the old Weirton Junction station in Weirton, will have charge of the new station, being assisted by three other employees of the company, who are now in charge of the two stations that will be discontinued. The volume of business, including passenger and freight formerly routed from the Wheeling and Weirton Junction stations will now be taken care of at the new Weirton Junction station. The new station which is now complete and a part of the $1,000,000 improvement program of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the Weirton district, is located on the main line next to the West Virginia state highway, a short distance below the Hollidays Cove undergrade. The station is one and one-tenth miles west of the Weirton Junction station and six-tenths of a mile east of the Wheeling Junction station. The public is advised by the officials of the company to use the new station beginning on Monday morning next for all travel east, west and for the New Cumberland and Wheeling Junction branches of the Pennsylvania system.