Gravers station

Gravers station (formerly Graver's Lane station) is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 300 East Gravers Lane at Anderson Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station building is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places[2] and the National Register. It was built in 1872 or 1879 with Furness & Evans as the architect, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project. On November 7, 1977, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1983 it was acquired by SEPTA's regional rail division.

Gravers
Location300 East Gravers Lane at Anderson Street
Philadelphia, PA
Owned bySEPTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections SEPTA City Bus: L
Construction
Parking17
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zone2
History
Opened1879
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Wyndmoor
toward 30th Street Station
 Chestnut Hill East Line Chestnut Hill East
Terminus
Graver's Lane Station
LocationGravers Lane and Reading Railroad Line
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°4′37.75″N 75°12′8.73″W
Built1879
ArchitectFrank Furness
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.77001184
Added to NRHPNovember 07, 1977[1]

The building combines a commuter railroad station with a residence on the second floor. It combines many materials and stylistic features, leading one architectural historian to call the style "histrionic".[3]

The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 10.3 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 124 boardings and 125 alightings on an average weekday.[4]

Station layout
G Street level Exit/entrance
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Inbound ←      Chestnut Hill East Line toward 30th Street (Wyndmoor)
Outbound ←      Chestnut Hill East Line toward Chestnut Hill East (Terminus) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. "PRHP: List of properties with OPA-compliant addresses" (PDF). Philadelphia Historical Commission. Retrieved 03-07-2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. Cohen, Madeline L. (1977). "Graver's Lane Station, Reading Railroad" (PDF). National Register of Historic Place Nomination Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  4. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)


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