Prospect Park station (SEPTA) explained

Prospect Park
Style:SEPTA
Style2:SEPTA Regional Rail
Symbol Location:SEPTA
Symbol:SEPTA
Address:735 Maryland Avenue
Borough:Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates:39.8881°N -75.3094°W
Owned:SEPTA
Line:Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:4
Parking:50 spaces[1]
Accessible:No
Zone:2[2]
Electrified:1928[3]
Former:Moore[4]
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Other Services Header:Former services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Prospect Park station (also known as Prospect Park–Moore station) is a station along the SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line and Amtrak Northeast Corridor. Amtrak does not stop here; only SEPTA serves this station. The station, located at Lincoln and Maryland Avenues in Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, includes a 44-space parking lot. Like the nearby Norwood Station, Prospect Park Station is located right next to the town's library, in this case the Prospect Park Public Library. It is also located near the Borough Hall.

Prospect Park station was originally known as Moore station, and was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. According to the Pennsylvania Railroad Stations, Past & Present website, a property owner named Moore donated the property for this station. He did so, with the "condition" that the station should carry his family name for as long as it exists. The station was renamed to Moore by the Pennsylvania Railroad on April 1, 1932.

However, that same source indicates that the current station building is not the original PW&B structure. ("...the original PW&B station ... predated the station that still exists"). The current station building was constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Station layout

Prospect Park has two low-level side platforms with walkways connecting passengers to the inner tracks. Amtrak's Northeast Corridor lines bypass the station via the inner tracks.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Newark Station . July 20, 2023 . . en-US.
  2. Web site: April 16, 2023 . Wilmington/Newark Line Timetable . July 20, 2023 . SEPTA.
  3. News: October 1, 1928 . Electric Trains in Service on Pennsy . 1 . The Every Evening . . January 31, 2021 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Web site: Baer . Christopher T. . A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1932 . December 7, 2015 . Pennsylvania Railroad Technical Historical Society.