Chelten Avenue station

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Chelten Avenue
SEPTA.svg
Chelten Avenue Station.jpg
The station at Chelten Avenue, facing the Chelten Avenue bridge in October 2012.
Location399 Chelten Avenue
(Chelten Avenue & Pulaski Street)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19144
Owned bySEPTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsCity Bus SEPTA City Bus: 26, J
Construction
Platform levels1
Parking27 spaces
Disabled accessNo
Other information
Fare zone2
History
OpenedJune 11, 1884[1]
Rebuilt1915
ElectrifiedMarch 22, 1918[2]
Services
Preceding station SEPTA.svg 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

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.[3]

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.[4]

The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is 8.1 track miles 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 platform level.

Station layout[]

G Street level Exit/entrance and 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. ^ "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
  2. ^ "Electric Train Has Trial Trip". The Harrisburg Telegraph. March 23, 1918. p. 10. Retrieved August 1, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. ^ "Chelten Avenue Station". Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
  4. ^ 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.

External links[]

Media related to Chelton Avenue station at Wikimedia Commons

An older version of the former Chelten Avenue PRR station (erroneously spelled "Chelton Avenue" station).

Coordinates: 40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W / 40.0300°N 75.1812°W / 40.0300; -75.1812

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