Millbourne station explained

Millbourne
Style:SEPTA
Style2:SEPTA Market-Frankford
Symbol Location:septa
Symbol:septa
Address:Wister Drive & Millbourne Avenue
Borough:Millbourne, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:39.9644°N -75.2523°W
Owned:Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Structure:At-grade
Accessible:Yes
Rebuilt:2008
Former:66th Street (concept name)
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services2 Header:Future services (2024)
Other Services2 Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail-metro
Zoom:15

Millbourne station is a rapid transit station on SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line, located adjacent east of an intersection between Millbourne Avenue and Wister Drive in Millbourne, Pennsylvania. It is one of two ground-level stops on the Market–Frankford Line, as well as one of two SEPTA rapid transit stations located outside the Philadelphia city limits. The station lies two blocks north of the line's namesake street.

History

Millbourne station is one of the original Market Street Elevated stations built by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company; the line opened for service on March 4, 1907 between and stations.[1]

The station was closed on April 23, 2007 for rehabilitation as part of a multi-phase reconstruction of the entire western Market Street Elevated.[2] The renovated station included new elevators, lighting, and other infrastructure, as well as a new brick station house.[3] Narrow wooden platforms[4] were replaced by concrete platforms complete with ADA-accessible tactile warning strips. The station reopened on June 16, 2008.

During the Market–Frankford's rush-hour skip-stop service pattern, Millbourne was served by "B" trains, with "A" trains bypassing the station. Following a successful pilot program where all trains made all stops, the skip-stop practice was discontinued on February 24, 2020.[5] [6]

Station layout

The station has two side platforms connected via an elevated walkway over the tracks to the station house at Wister Drive and Sellers Avenue. There is an additional exit-only gate at the east end of the eastbound platform, which leads to a staircase to North Millbourne Avenue, a dead-end residential street one block to the east.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Subways and Elevated Lines . Hepp . John . The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia . 2013.
  2. Web site: SEPTA 'Elebrates' End Of Project . September 11, 2009 . June 2, 2020.
  3. Web site: Market Street Elevated (MSE) Reconstruction Project . . https://web.archive.org/web/20081115191716/http://www.septa.org/news/construction/mse.html . November 15, 2008 . dead.
  4. https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?64276 Millbourne station on April 20, 2007, NYCSubway.org
  5. News: SEPTA service changes mark end of skip-stop service on Market-Frankford Line . PhillyVoice . February 24, 2020 . Ralph . Pat . June 2, 2020.
  6. SEPTA to Improve Market-Frankford Line Service Levels . . February 13, 2020 . June 2, 2020.