Fox Chase (SEPTA station)
- Fox Chase (SEPTA station)
Infobox Station
name=Fox Chase
type=SEPTA regional rail station
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image_caption=Fox Chase station
address=Rhawn Street & Jeannes Street
Philadelphia, PA 19111
line=SEPTA:rail color box|system=SEPTA|line=R8
other=SEPTA Bus
platform=3 platforms
parking=342 Spaces
bicycle=
passengers=
pass_year=
pass_percent=
opened=
rebuilt=
ADA=Yes
code=
owned=SEPTA
zone= 2
services=s-start
Fox Chase is the terminus of SEPTA's R8 Fox Chase Regional Rail line. It is located just west of the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The station, which has the largest number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), is the closest regional rail stop to the neighborhoods of Fox Chase, Bustleton, and Pine Valley. It is also used by residents of Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Before February 1983, service continued northward via diesel passenger trains to a terminus in Newtown, Pennsylvania. The crossing at Rhawn Street still exists, but bumpers prevent trains from crossing, and the signals and gates have become inoperable due to deterioration.
Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was "temporarily suspended" in February 1983 due to SEPTA’s desire for all-electric rail operations (electrification was extended as far as Fox Chase station by the City of Philadelphia in 1966). There are no plans to reinstate service (a point of contention for residents in Bucks County insisting on the return of active service), and Fox Chase remains the official end of the Newtown line.
The station is also served by SEPTA bus routes 18, 24, and 28.
External links
* [http://septa.com/service/pdfs/R8.pdf Current schedule for the SEPTA R8 line]
* [http://www.septa.org/maps/click_map/fox_chase.html SEPTA - Fox Chase Station]
* [http://www.thebluecomet.com/rdgFoxChase61.jpgPicture of the old station building, circa 1961, before electrification in 1966.]
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