Norwood (SEPTA station)

Norwood SEPTA regional rail
Station statistics
Address	Norwood & West Winona Avenues Norwood, PA 19074
Coordinates	39°53′29″N 75°18′08″W / 39.891360°N 75.302221°W / 39.891360; -75.302221Coordinates: 39°53′29″N 75°18′08″W / 39.891360°N 75.302221°W / 39.891360; -75.302221
Lines	Wilmington/Newark Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Parking	88 spaces
Other information
Electrified	1928
Accessible
Owned by	SEPTA
Fare zone	2
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Prospect Park toward Newark Wilmington/Newark Line Glenolden toward Temple University

Norwood is a SEPTA train station on the Wilmington/Newark Line. While on tracks owned by the company, Amtrak trains do not stop here, as it is served only by SEPTA. The line offers southbound service to Marcus Hook, Wilmington and Newark, Delaware and northbound service to Philadelphia and points beyond (most commonly Norristown).

The station, located at Winona & Welcome Avenues in Norwood, PA, includes a 62-space parking lot on its outbound platform side (along Harrison Avenue). Pedestrian walkways and staircases connect the inbound and outbound platforms via the Amosland Road Bridge, which overpasses the tracks. Opposite the tracks from the SEPTA designated parking lot is metered street and lot parking.

The station's inbound platform and ticket office is located next to the Norwood Public Library, a branch of the Delaware County Library System.

Dorwart-Gentile Suicides

On the morning of February 25, 2010, two teenage girls, Vanessa Dorwart, 15, and Gina Gentile, 16, were struck and killed by a high-speed Acela Express Amtrak train at the Norwood station. The deaths were later determined to be the result of a suicide pact between the girls.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Teen train deaths ruled suicides," by Mari A. Schaefer, Nancy Phillips, and Tom Infield (Philadelpia Inquirer; February 27, 2010)

External links

• SEPTA - Norwood Station
• Original Norwood PB&W(Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wilmington) Station image
• Amosland Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Winona Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View