North Hills station explained

North Hills
Style:SEPTA
Style2:SEPTA Regional Rail
Symbol Location:septa
Symbol:septa
Address:Station & Mount Carmel Avenues
North Hills, PA 19038
Coordinates:40.1122°N -75.1699°W
Platform:2 side platforms
Levels:1
Tracks:2
Parking:147 spaces
Electrified:July 26, 1931[1]
Accessible:No
Zone:3
Years1:1978
Events1:Station agent eliminated[2]
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

North Hills station is a station along the SEPTA Lansdale/Doylestown Line. The station, located in SEPTA Fare Zone 3 at the intersection of Station and Mount Carmel Avenues, includes a 147-space parking lot. In FY 2013, North Hills station had a weekday average of 202 boardings and 219 alightings.[3]

The station was originally known as Edge Hill and was part of the original North Pennsylvania Railroad route between Philadelphia and Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania. Service began over this line on July 2, 1855.[4]

Station layout

North Hills has two low-level side platforms.

Notes and References

  1. News: Reading Installs Electric Service . August 22, 2020 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . July 26, 1931 . 8. Newspapers.com.
  2. News: Barger . Theresa Sullivan . New Life for the North Hills Station . October 9, 2020 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . September 25, 1986 . 16H. Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan." p. 62 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140812142611/http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf . 2014-08-12 .  
  4. Book: Hare, Jay V. . History of the North Pennsylvania Railroad . 1944 . Philadelphia . Reading Company . 11885870 . 6.