Chelten Avenue station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located on West Chelten Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the Chestnut Hill West Line. 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.[6]
Chelten Avenue  | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Chelten Avenue station, facing the Chelten Avenue bridge in October 2012 | |||||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||||
| Location | 359 Chelten Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W / 40.0300°N 75.1812°W | ||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  SEPTA City Bus: 26, J[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 24 spaces[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 10 rack spaces[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | No[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Other information | |||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 1[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||
| Opened | June 11, 1884[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1915 | ||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | March 22, 1918[4] | ||||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | 359 boardings, 307 alightings (weekday average)[5] | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 75 of 146 | ||||||||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||
A station has been at this location since June 11, 1884. Known initially as Germantown, the 1918 station was named Chelten Avenue to avoid confusion with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad's Germantown. 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.[7]
The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is 8.1 miles (13.0 km) 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 the platform level.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Chestnut Hill West Line Timetable" (PDF). Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. April 16, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
- ^ a b "Queen Lane Station". Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
- ^ "Steam Roads: Opening of Pennsylvania's New Branch Line". The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 11, 1884. p. 2. Retrieved November 10, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Electric Train Has Trial Trip". The Harrisburg Telegraph. March 23, 1918. p. 10. Retrieved August 1, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ "Chelten Avenue Station". Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. 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.
External links
edit
Media related to Chelton Avenue station at Wikimedia Commons