Spring Mill station explained

Spring Mill
Style:SEPTA
Style2:SEPTA Regional Rail
Symbol Location:septa
Symbol:septa
Address:98 Station Avenue,
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
Line:Norristown Branch
Other: Schuylkill River Trail
Platform:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Parking:154 spaces
Passengers:509 boardings
521 alightings
(weekday average)[1]
Pass Year:2017
Electrified:February 5, 1933[2]
Accessible:Yes
Owned:SEPTA
Zone:3
Pass Rank:49 of 146
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Other Services Header:Former services
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail
Zoom:14

Spring Mill station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Its official address is Station Avenue near Hector Street, Conshohocken (ZIP code 19428), but it is actually in the Spring Mill section of Whitemarsh Township. The station is located south of Hector Street, where North Lane deadends at the Schuylkill River.

The original station was established by the Reading Railroad about 1880, and took its name from the nearby 18th-century grist mill.

In FY 2013, Spring Mill station had a weekday average of 378 boardings and 358 alightings.[3] It has a 154-space parking lot, and is handicapped-accessible. The Schuylkill River Trail passes next to the station.

Due to the proximity of the Schuylkill River and a pair of tributary streams, the station is periodically subjected to flooding, resulting in the temporary suspension of all service on the Manayunk/Norristown Line.[4] [5] A project to replace the line's signal system is underway in 2013 that is intended to confine future flooding closures on the line to the section above Miquon station, by allowing partial service further down the line instead of no service on the line at all.[6]

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40.0742°N -75.286°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update. . June 2020 . 24 . March 11, 2022.
  2. News: New Electric Schedule . August 21, 2020 . The Scranton Times . February 4, 1933 . 12. Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140812142611/http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf . 2014-08-12 .  
  4. Web site: Sunnergren. Tom. Schuylkill to Crest at Over 20 Feet Friday Morning. Plymouth-Whitemarsh Patch. 9 September 2011 . 6 April 2013. etal.
  5. Web site: SEPTA Team Awarded Grant for Climate Adaptation Plan. SEPTA Sustainability Journal. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. 6 April 2013.
  6. Web site: Manayunk/Norristown Line Shuttle Busing: An Explanation. SEPTA. 6 April 2013.