title: Ferry Avenue station
text: # Ferry Avenue station
  
  Ferry Avenue station is a PATCO Speedline station located in Camden and Woodlynne, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It is near the busy US Route 130 and situated near the intersection of Camden, Woodlynne and Collingswood.
  
  ## 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 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 Ferry Avenue Local trains were replaced with Woodcrest Local trains on September 20, 1980. The third track is now used to store a train mid-day.
  
  | P Platform level | Westbound | ← PATCO Speedline toward 15–16th & Locust (Broadway) | ← PATCO Speedline toward 15–16th & Locust (Broadway) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | P Platform level | Island platform | Island platform | |
  | P Platform level | Pocket track | → No regular service | |
  | P Platform level | Island platform | Island platform | |
  | P Platform level | Eastbound | → PATCO Speedline toward Lindenwold (Collingswood) → | → PATCO Speedline toward Lindenwold (Collingswood) → |
  | G | Street level | Station house, fare control, parking, buses | Station house, fare control, parking, buses |
  
  ## 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, were 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.
  
  ## Notable places nearby
  
  The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
  
  * Harleigh Cemetery
  * Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
  