Chelten Avenue station explained

Chelten Avenue
Style:SEPTA
Style2:SEPTA Regional Rail
Symbol Location:SEPTA
Symbol:SEPTA
Address:359 Chelten Avenue
Borough:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:40.03°N -75.1812°W
Owned:Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Connections: SEPTA City Bus:
Parking:24 spaces[1]
Bicycle:10 rack spaces
Accessible:No
Zone:1[2]
Opened:[3]
Rebuilt:1915
Electrified:March 22, 1918[4]
Pass Year:2017
Passengers:359 boardings, 307 alightings (weekday average)[5]
Pass Rank:75 of 146
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Other Services Header:Former services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

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]

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 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Queen Lane Station . July 11, 2023 . . en-US.
  2. Web site: April 16, 2023 . Chestnut Hill West Line Timetable . July 11, 2023 . Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.
  3. News: Steam Roads: Opening of Pennsylvania's New Branch Line. November 10, 2017. The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 11, 1884. 2. Newspapers.com.
  4. News: Electric Train Has Trial Trip . August 1, 2021 . The Harrisburg Telegraph . March 23, 1918 . 10. Newspapers.com.
  5. Web site: Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update. . June 2020 . 24 . March 11, 2022.
  6. Web site: Chelten Avenue Station. Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. 14 June 2011.
  7. Book: Lynch, James J. D. Jr.. The Chestnut Hill and Fort Washington Branches. 1982. Philadelphia Chapter, Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 10–11, 22.