Robesonia’s passenger rail station was built in 1856 as a stop on the Lebanon Valley line on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, just west of the Wernersville Train Station and Sinking Spring’s passenger Station. It was located on the southern end of Robeson Street and the property was bounded on the north by Railroad Ave. Today that land is part of Robesonia Park.

In 1869 the Reading Eagle reported that, “several cows were killed by the New York Express train, at Robesonia Station. The cows were lying on the track, and, the night being dark the engineer did not observe them until it was too late.“

A body was found along the tracks just east of the station in 1901, though the injuries did not appear to be from being struck by a locomotive. In the man’s pockets included pay stubs from a business in Philly. He was identified as William C. Minter.

The Queen of the Valley train regularly traveled this line between Harrisburg and Reading. In 1905 it was traveling 60 mph and struck a horse and carriage just east of the Robesonia Station. The impact killed the horse and obliterated the wagon. The driver of the wagon escaped harm by jumping from the wagon out of the train’s path at the last second.

A similar crash occurred in 1925, but this time a father and his 12-year-old son were tragically killed crossing near the station on their two-horse wagon by an east-bound train.

In 1937 a man was struck and killed near the station while he was walking there from his own locomotive.

This station at Robesonia was abandoned in 1953 after the Reading Railroad claimed it had not made a profit in ticket sales there in 3 years. Passenger rail service on this line was discontinued altogether in 1965.

In 1957 the station was purchased by a model train hobby group and moved from its place along the Lebanon Valley line to New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. It still sits here and is utilized as a model train store.