- Chelten Avenue (SEPTA station)
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Chelten Avenue
SEPTA regional rail
Station statistics Address 399 Chelten Avenue
(Chelten Avenue & Pulaski Street)
Philadelphia, PA, 19144Lines Platforms 2 side platforms Tracks 2 Parking 27 spaces Other information Opened 1915 Electrified 1918 Owned by SEPTA Fare zone 2 Services Preceding station SEPTA Following station toward Chestnut Hill WestChestnut Hill West Line toward Temple UniversityChelten Avenue Station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 315 and 318-20 West Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The concrete station structure, part of a Pennsylvania Railroad grade-separation project completed in 1918 in conjunction with electrification of the line, was designed by William Holmes Cookman.[1]
A station has been at this location since 1885. Known initially as Germantown, the 1918 station was named Chelten Avenue to avoid confusion with the Philadelphia & Reading's Germantown station. The original station building was a two-story stone structure at street level on the outbound side. Retained in that general location after the 1918 grade separation, it was demolished circa 1958, replaced by a small brick ticket office on the inbound side which remains in use today.[2]
The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is 8.1 track miles from Suburban Station. It contains concrete-arch covered staircases on all four corners of the Chelten Avenue Bridge over the tracks leading to the station platforms. In 2004, this station saw 441 boardings on an average weekday. Despite having high-level platforms, the station is not ADA accessible, as it lacks ramps or elevators from the street down to platform level.
References
- ^ "Chelten Avenue Station". Philadelphia Archiects and Buildings. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/275738. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
- ^ Lynch, James J. D. Jr. (1982). The Chestnut Hill and Fort Washington Branches. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Philadelphia Chapter, Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. pp. 10–11, 22.
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Coordinates: 40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W / 40.0300°N 75.1812°W
SEPTA City Transit Division Market–Frankford Line • Broad Street Line • Subway–Surface Trolley Lines (Routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36) • Route 15 • Trackless trolleys • City surface routesSuburban Division Regional Rail Main Line • Airport Line • Chestnut Hill East Line • Chestnut Hill West Line • Cynwyd Line • Fox Chase Line • Lansdale/Doylestown Line • Manayunk/Norristown Line • Media/Elwyn Line • Paoli/Thorndale Line • Trenton Line • Warminster Line • West Trenton Line • Wilmington/Newark LineMajor stations Frankford Transportation Center • Fern Rock Transportation Center • Market East Station • Norristown Transportation Center • Olney Transportation Center • Suburban Station • 30th Street Station • 69th Street Transportation CenterFormer services Route 23 trolley • Route 56 trolley • Route 60 trolley • Elwyn-West Chester service • Cynwyd-Ivy Ridge service • Fox Chase Rapid Transit LineMass transit in the Delaware Valley Transit buses SEPTA: Philadelphia • Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties
Reading: Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority
New Jersey Transit: Camden, Gloucester, and Salem County suburban service • Camden, Gloucester, and Salem County local service • Long-distance local routes from Philadelphia
DART First State: New Castle CountyCommuter rail SEPTA Regional Rail: Airport Line • Chestnut Hill East Line • Chestnut Hill West Line • Cynwyd Line • Fox Chase Line • Lansdale/Doylestown Line • Manayunk/Norristown Line • Media/Elwyn Line • Paoli/Thorndale Line • Trenton Line • Warminster Line • West Trenton Line • Wilmington/Newark Line
New Jersey Transit: Atlantic City Line • ACESRapid transit and light rail SEPTA: Broad Street Line • Market–Frankford Line • Norristown High Speed Line • Subway–Surface trolleys • Route 15 • Routes 101 and 102
Delaware River Port Authority: PATCO Speedline
New Jersey Transit: River Line
Other: Greenline (proposed)Related Organizations Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission • Pennsylvania Transit Expansion Coalition (PA-TEC) • National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) • Delaware Valley Association of Railroad Passengers (DVARP)Categories:- SEPTA Regional Rail stations
- Stations along Pennsylvania Railroad lines
- Pennsylvania railway station stubs
- SEPTA stubs
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