 A branch of the Reading from the Falls east to Nicetown and southeast to Port Richmond opened in 1842, now the Trenton Subdivision from the Falls to Nicetown.The line south of Belmont was sold to the Reading in 1851.The portion of the Trenton Subdivision from Olney (near Tabor Road) northeast to Cheltenham (near Martins Mill Road) opened in 1876 as part of the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad.