Olney station (SEPTA) explained

Olney station (SEPTA) should not be confused with Olney Transportation Center.

Olney
Style:SEPTA
Style2:SEPTA Regional Rail
Symbol Location:septa
Symbol:septa
Other: SEPTA City Bus:
Tracks:1
Parking:61 spaces
Opened:February 4, 1878[1]
Rebuilt:1906
Electrified:yes
Zone:1
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Other Services Header:Former services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Olney station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Mascher Street and Tabor Road in the Olney neighborhood, it serves the Fox Chase Line. The station has a 61-space parking lot. In FY 2013, it had a weekday average of 158 boardings and 156 alightings.[2]

The original station building was constructed in 1906 by the Reading Railroad. It was boarded up in the 1980s, and was demolished in 2008.[3] Olney is the last stop inbound before Wayne Junction, where it merges with the Warminster, West Trenton, Lansdale/Doylestown, and Chestnut Hill East lines.

External links

40.033°N -75.1232°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Baer . Christopher T. . A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1878 . . June 2006 . January 24, 2025 . Feb. 2, 1878 – Excursion with two trains of 10 cars each opens Philadelphia, Newtown & New York Railroad extension from Fox Chase to Newtown; revenue service begins Feb. 4; operated by PRR with through trains to West Philadelphia Station. 6.
  2. Web site: Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. SEPTA. May 2014. 62. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812142611/http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf. 2014-08-12.
  3. Web site: Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. West2K.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20080604000743/http://www.west2k.com/pastations/philadelphia.htm. 2008-06-04.