Ferry Avenue (PATCO station)

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Ferry Avenue

Station statistics

Address

2600 Ferry Ave
Camden, New Jersey

Lines

PATCO Speedline

Platforms

1 island platform
(Splits to 2 platforms for discontinued "Ferry Ave Local")

Tracks

2
1 unused

Other information

Owned by

Port Authority Transit Corporation

Services

Preceding station		PATCO		Following station
Broadway (Walter Rand) toward 15–16th & Locust		PATCO Speedline		Collingswood toward Lindenwold

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

[edit] 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 seldom used.

[edit] 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.^[1]^[2]

On January 12, 2005, Thomas and Toliver pled guilty in New Jersey Superior Court in order to avoid the death penalty.^[3]