Colmar station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Colmar, Pennsylvania. Located at Bethlehem Pike (PA 309) and Walnut Street, it serves the Lansdale/Doylestown Line. In FY 2013, Colmar station had a weekday average of 370 boardings and 369 alightings.[3]
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Location | Bethlehem Pike & Walnut Street Colmar, Pennsylvania, USA | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°16′06″N 75°15′15″W / 40.2684°N 75.2542°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 288 | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||||
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Electrified | July 26, 1931[1] | ||||||||||||
Previous names | Line Lexington (1856–1871) | ||||||||||||
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2017 | 494 boardings 328 alightings (weekday average)[2] | ||||||||||||
Rank | 52 of 146 | ||||||||||||
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Colmar station was originally built in 1856 by the North Pennsylvania Railroad as Line Lexington station, despite being located 1½ miles away from the Village of Line Lexington. In January 1871 a new post office near the station named the surrounding community "Jenkins" and was renamed "Ainsworth" in June of that year, but neither had any effect on the name of the station until two weeks later, when both the village and the station were named "Colmar," which has remained the name of the station ever since.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ "Reading Installs Electric Service". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 26, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
- ^ Existing Railroad Stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
- ^ Hatfield Township, Pennsylvania Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine