Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
April 26, 1934
Old Station of Lehigh Valley at Stanley to be Torn Down
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Stanley, April 25 - The abandoned Lehigh Valley Railroad Station here, which in the old days housed a school of telegraphy for many boys of this section and which only 15 years ago had to be enlarged to accommodate the passenger travel in and out of this village,, will be torn down in the near future.
Closed last summer when the Lehigh consolidated its Stanley station service with that of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the latter's station here, the old depot has been sold to Russell Hulbutt who will have it razed.
Built in 1895, the station was alive with activity for many years. Old time residents recalled today that the station agent used to have to set as a traffic cop to keep the crowd of waiting passengers back from the track as the evening train wetter, with Engineer Patrick Hoban leaned half way out of the cab, pulled into the station.
Two passenger trains daily were operated over the Naples branch in those day and Stanley was the junction point for passenger travel for points pm the Sodus Bay Branch, Penn Yan and Canandaigua. The depot's waiting room finally proved too small for the number of passengers and had to be made larger.
In its office a score or more boys learned the "Morse Code" under the direction of the station agent. Telegraph students assisted the agent in his work and paid him tuition as well in order to master the code.
