SEPTA's Warminster StationWarminster station is a rail station on SEPTA Regional Rail's Warminster Line, formerly the Reading Railroad's New Hope Branch, in Warminster, Pennsylvania. It is the terminus for electrified MUs. Electrification was extended to Warminster in 1974, the same date the station was completed. The station replaced both Bonair and Johnsville stations which were closely spaced and essentially nothing more than small sheds, albeit, small sheds dating back to 1891. The station is occasionally served by passenger trains operated by the New Hope Railroad, which has an interchange just north of the station with Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad.
The township itself is 13.7 miles north of Philadelphia. It was called Warminster Township as early as 1685, before its borders were formally established in 1711. It is named after a small town in the county of Wiltshire, at the western extremity of Salisbury Plain, England.
Warminster was home to the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, which during World War II, the U.S. Navy acquired. The Center initially served as a weapons development and airplane testing facility. The Naval Air Warfare Center, previously called the Johnsville Naval Air Development Center and then the Naval Air Development Center, operated in Warminster from World War II until it closed in 1996. In the 1960s the naval site became adapted as a training center for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs. The facility also developed a prototype "black box," best known as the indestructible recorder of cockpit conversations and information in the event of a crash.
