Olney station (SEPTA Regional Rail)
Olney | |||||||||||||||||
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Location | Mascher Street and Tabor Road Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 (SEPTA), 1 (Trenton Subdivision) | ||||||||||||||||
Connections | SEPTA City Bus: 8 | ||||||||||||||||
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Parking | 61 spaces | ||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1906 (RDG) | ||||||||||||||||
Electrified | yes | ||||||||||||||||
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Olney station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Mascher Street and Tabor Road in the Olney neighborhood, it serves the Fox Chase Line. The station has a 61-space parking lot. In FY 2013, it had a weekday average of 158 boardings and 156 alightings.[1]
The original station building was constructed in 1906 by the Reading Railroad. It was boarded up in the 1980s, and was demolished in 2008.[2] Olney is the last stop inbound before Wayne Junction, where it merges with the Warminster, West Trenton, Lansdale/Doylestown, and Chestnut Hill East lines.
Station layout[]
P Platform level |
Street level | Exit/entrance and parking |
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right | ||
SEPTA track | ← Fox Chase Line toward 30th Street (Wayne Junction) Fox Chase Line toward Fox Chase (Lawndale) → | |
CSX track | ← CSX freight service → |
References[]
- ^ SEPTA (May 2014). "Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). p. 62. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.
- ^ "Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania". West2K.com. Archived from the original on June 4, 2008.
External links[]
- Current schedule for the SEPTA Fox Chase/Newtown line
- SEPTA station page for Olney
- Old Olney Reading RR Station images
- Mascher Street and Tabor Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
Coordinates: 40°01′59″N 75°07′24″W / 40.032954°N 75.123203°W
Categories:
- SEPTA Regional Rail stations
- Former Reading Company stations
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1906
- 1906 establishments in Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania railway station stubs
- SEPTA stubs