Olney station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Olney
SEPTA Regional Rail
The parking lot and platform at Olney Station on the Fox Chase Line
Location Mascher Street and Tabor Road
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Owned by SEPTA
Line(s)
Platforms 1 side platform
Tracks 1 (SEPTA), 1 (Trenton Subdivision)
Connections SEPTA City Bus: 8
Construction
Parking 61 spaces
Other information
Fare zone 1
History
Opened 1906 (RDG)
Electrified yes
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
Fox Chase Line
toward Fox Chase
Former services
Preceding station   Reading Railroad   Following station
Terminus
New York Short Line

Olney station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Mascher Street and Tabor Road in the Olney neighborhood, it serves the Fox Chase Line. The station has a 61-space parking lot. In FY 2013, it had a weekday average of 158 boardings and 156 alightings.[1]

The original station building was constructed in 1906 by the Reading Railroad. It was boarded up in the 1980s, and was demolished in 2008.[2] Olney is the last stop inbound before Wayne Junction, where it merges with the Warminster, West Trenton, Lansdale/Doylestown, and Chestnut Hill East lines.

References

  1. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12.  (539 KB)
  2. Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Archived 2008-06-04 at the Wayback Machine.

Coordinates: 40°01′59″N 75°07′24″W / 40.032954°N 75.123203°W / 40.032954; -75.123203

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.