{"id":64720,"date":"2025-12-18T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64720\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:28:07","slug":"state-awards-grant-to-help-boost-efforts-for-reading-philadelphia-passenger-train-service-revival-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64720\/","title":{"rendered":"State awards grant to help boost efforts for Reading-Philadelphia passenger train service revival | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The state is keeping efforts to revive passenger train service between Reading and Philadelphia on track.<\/p>\n<p>The state awarded a grant of more than $400,000 for the next step of the Federal Railroad Administration&#8217;s Corridor Identification and Development Program.<\/p>\n<p>This phase includes preliminary design plans and will look at engineering and environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told these funds will be used for engineering costs and more funds will be needed.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger rail service between Reading and Philadelphia ended in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The state is keeping efforts to revive passenger train service between Reading and Philadelphia on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10122,146,34456,28,69,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-64720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-federal-railroad-administration","9":"tag-grant","10":"tag-passenger-rail","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-reading","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}