Fox Chase station

Fox Chase
Fox Chase station in December 2012
Location	442 Rhawn Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111
Coordinates	40°04′36″N 75°04′57″W / 40.076643°N 75.082487°W / 40.076643; -75.082487Coordinates: 40°04′36″N 75°04′57″W / 40.076643°N 75.082487°W / 40.076643; -75.082487
Owned by	SEPTA
Platforms	Spanish solution (2 side platforms, 1 island platform)
Tracks	2
Connections	SEPTA City Bus: 18, 24, 28
Construction
Parking	342 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	2
Electrified	Yes
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Ryers toward 30th Street Station Fox Chase Line Terminus
Former services Preceding station SEPTA Following station Ryers toward Reading Terminal Newtown Line Walnut Hill (closed 1983) toward Newtown Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Cheltenham toward Philadelphia Newtown Branch Huntingdon Valley toward Newtown

Fox Chase station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located near the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase neighborhood, it is the current terminus of the Fox Chase Line. Fox Chase station, which has the largest number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), is the closest regional rail stop Philadelphia's Fox Chase, Bustleton, and areas, and to Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County.

The station has two tracks and passengers board and exit at ground level. There is a wheelchair ramp at the north end of the station, though it requires a request to the train staff to utilize. South of the station, the two tracks merge into one and shortly after, it crosses Oxford Avenue (PA 232) on the line's only grade crossing.

Just north of the station, the now closed portion of the line crosses Rhawn Street at grade and continues into the woods although both tracks are now blocked off with bumper blocks before the road crossing.

SEPTA rebuilt the station area and ticket office in Summer 2010, using funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.^[1] In FY 2013, Fox Chase station was the ninth busiest station in the SEPTA Regional Rail system, with a weekday average of 1378 boardings and 1327 alightings.^[2]

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• Media related to Fox Chase (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
• Current schedule for the SEPTA Fox Chase/Newtown
• SEPTA – Fox Chase Station