Moylan–Rose Valley station
Moylan–Rose Valley | |||||||||||||
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Location | 4 Manchester Road Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°54′21″N 75°23′18″W / 39.9058°N 75.3882°WCoordinates: 39°54′21″N 75°23′18″W / 39.9058°N 75.3882°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 149 spaces | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 3 | ||||||||||||
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Opened | 1870 | ||||||||||||
Electrified | December 2, 1928[1] | ||||||||||||
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486 (average weekday)[2] | |||||||||||||
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Moylan–Rose Valley station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania.[3][4] Located at 4 Manchester Road, it serves the Media/Elwyn Line. The station has a 149-space parking lot and a post office at the station, open 7:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday. The Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is about 100 yards north of the station.
It is located near the communities of Media, Moylan, and Rose Valley. Originally known as Manchester, and later Moylan, the current name reflects its geographical location near those areas.
Eastbound (inbound) platform
Westbound (outbound) shelter
Train arriving from Philadelphia
Parking system
Station layout[]
Moylan–Rose Valley has two low-level side platforms with a connecting pathway across the tracks.
G | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Outbound | ← Media/Elwyn Line toward Elwyn (Media) |
Inbound | Media/Elwyn Line toward Temple University (Wallingford) → |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Street level | Exit/entrance and parking |
References[]
- ^ "Electric Trains to Start Sunday". The Chester Times. November 30, 1928. p. 1. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "SEPTA Planning" (PDF).
- ^ "Zoning Map" (PDF). Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2020-04-23. - Compare to the location of the station.
- ^ "Moylan-Rose Valley". SEPTA. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
491 Osage Lane & Manchester Avenue Media, PA 19063
External links[]
- SEPTA Regional Rail stations
- Stations on the West Chester Line
- Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1870
- Pennsylvania railway station stubs
- SEPTA stubs