The Stourbridge Line

The Stourbridge Line (/ˈstɜːr.brɪdʒ/) (reporting mark DLS) is an American Class III shortline railroad that operates tourist trains and leases a railbike operation over 25 miles (40 km) of former Erie Railroad trackage between Honesdale and Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, in Wayne and Pike counties. There is also a station at Hawley. As of 2025, tourist trains mainly operate between Honesdale and Hawley with railbikes seasonally using the Hawley-to-Lackawaxen segment. The route is highly rural with the exceptions of the boroughs of Honesdale and Hawley, and generally follows the course of the Lackawaxen River and the Delaware and Hudson Canal.

At Lackawaxen, the branch line connects with the Central New York Railroad segment of the Southern Tier Line — also originally Erie, but owned by Norfolk Southern since 1999. The Erie became the Erie Lackawanna in 1960, and when that railroad went bankrupt in 1972, the Stourbridge line was not included in the new Conrail in 1976.

The railroad has changed ownership several times since then, from PennDOT to the Lackawaxen-Honesdale Shippers Association, to current owner businessman Paul Brancato as of 2008. Operators have varied from Robey Railroads, to the Morristown & Erie Railway (between January 2009 and 2011), to the Myles Group, operating as the Delaware, Lackawaxen & Stourbridge Railroad (DL&S) as of May 9, 2015.