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The [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] (PRR) built the [[Connecting Railway]] in 1867 to connect its main line to the [[Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad]]. By the early 1870s, '''New York Junction''' station was established where the Connecting Railway crossed over the [[Philadelphia and Reading Railroad]] mainline in North Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=12844 |title=Johnson's Philadelphia |publisher=Alvin J. Johnson & Co. |date=1872 |via=Ward Maps |work=Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World}}</ref> A signal tower, still extant, was constructed around this time.<ref name=habs />
By the early 1880s, the PRR station was known as '''Germantown Junction''', while the Reading had its [[North Broad (SEPTA station)#History|16th Street station]] a block to the northwest (and after 1890, [[North Broad (SEPTA station)|Huntingdon Street station]] to the southeast).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=17730 |title=Outline Maps of the County and City of Philadelphia and Vicinity |year=1882 |publisher=O. W. Gray and Son |via=Ward Maps}}</ref> Germantown Junction station was a two-story [[Queen Anne style]] building located between the diverging lines; its large gables acted as shelters for passengers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wardmaps.com/viewasset.php?aid=1904 |title=Plan 30 |year=1895 |work=Baist's Property Atlas of the City and County of Philadelphia, Penna. |publisher=G. William Baist |via=Ward Maps}}</ref><ref name=great />
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===A new station needed===
By the mid 1890s, the station was frequently overcrowded and North Philadelphia and the northern suburbs grew in population. The completion of the [[Delair Bridge]] in 1896 allowed passengers to ride trains directly to the summer resorts of southern New Jersey (rather than taking a ferry to [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]]) further increased traffic on the line.<ref name=great /> [[George B. Roberts]], president of the railroad, used his social connections to hire [[Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr.]] to construct a new station.<ref name=habs /> The new station was constructed on a former freight yard on the south side of the tracks (across from the previous station), where there was more space for the station. The site also provided better connections for passengers using newly electrified streetcars on Glenwood Avenue and North Broad Street to reach the station.<ref name=great />
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