Germantown station is a SEPTA Regional Rail component in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Chelten Avenue and Baynton Street in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the Chestnut Hill East Line.
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Location | 120–128 East Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°02′16″N 75°10′19″W / 40.0379°N 75.1720°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Chestnut Hill East Branch | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
Connections | SEPTA City Bus: 26, J, K | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 13 spaces | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Opened | c. 1885 | ||||||||||||
Electrified | February 5, 1933[1] | ||||||||||||
Previous names | Chelten Avenue | ||||||||||||
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The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 6.8 track miles from Suburban Station.
History
editThe Germantown railway station has existed since at least 1884 when it could be found in the same place it is today on the Chestnut Hill East line.[2] It was on SEPTA's R7 line until the regional-rail renaming.
On May 28, 2009, SEPTA approved a $1.9 million rehabilitation effort which included the Germantown station.[3]
In 2013, this station saw 102 boardings and 140 alightings on an average weekday.[4]
Gallery
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Germantown station
References
edit- ^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Map of the Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley Railroads, and their connections". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Philadelphia. 1884. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ Many SEPTA stations to get makeovers.
- ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
External links
editMedia related to Germantown (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons