Chelten Avenue station

Chelten Avenue station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located on West Chelten Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the Chestnut Hill West Line. The concrete station structure, part of a Pennsylvania Railroad grade-separation project completed in 1918 in conjunction with electrification of the line, was designed by William Holmes Cookman.[6]

Chelten Avenue
Chelten Avenue station, facing the Chelten Avenue bridge in October 2012
General information
Location359 Chelten Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W
Owned bySoutheastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport SEPTA City Bus: 26, J[1]
Construction
Parking24 spaces[2]
Bicycle facilities10 rack spaces[2]
AccessibleNo[1]
Other information
Fare zone1[1]
History
OpenedJune 11, 1884 (1884-06-11)[3]
Rebuilt1915
ElectrifiedMarch 22, 1918[4]
Passengers
2017359 boardings, 307 alightings (weekday average)[5]
Rank75 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Tulpehocken
toward Chestnut Hill West
 Chestnut Hill West Line Queen Lane
toward Temple University
Former services
Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station
Tulpehocken
toward Chestnut Hill
 Chestnut Hill Line Queen Lane
toward Suburban Station
Tulpehocken
toward White Marsh
 Fort Washington Branch

A station has been at this location since June 11, 1884. Known initially as Germantown, the 1918 station was named Chelten Avenue to avoid confusion with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad's Germantown. The original station building was a two-story stone structure at street level on the outbound side. Retained in that general location after the 1918 grade separation, it was demolished circa 1958, replaced by a small brick ticket office on the inbound side which remains in use today.[7]

The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is 8.1 miles (13.0 km) from Suburban Station. It contains concrete-arch-covered staircases on all four corners of the Chelten Avenue Bridge over the tracks leading to the station platforms. In 2004, this station saw 441 boardings on an average weekday. Despite having high-level platforms, the station is not ADA accessible, as it lacks ramps or elevators from the street down to the platform level.

Station layout
G Street level Entrance/exit, buses, parking
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Outbound ←      Chestnut Hill West Line toward Chestnut Hill West (Tulpehocken)
Inbound ←      Chestnut Hill West Line toward Temple University (Queen Lane) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

References
  1. "Chestnut Hill West Line Timetable" (PDF). Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. April 16, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  2. "Queen Lane Station". Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  3. "Steam Roads: Opening of Pennsylvania's New Branch Line". The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 11, 1884. p. 2. Retrieved November 10, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  4. "Electric Train Has Trial Trip". The Harrisburg Telegraph. March 23, 1918. p. 10. Retrieved August 1, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  5. "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  6. "Chelten Avenue Station". Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
  7. Lynch, James J. D. Jr. (1982). The Chestnut Hill and Fort Washington Branches. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Philadelphia Chapter, Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. pp. 10–11, 22.

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