Chelten Avenue (SEPTA station)

Chelten Avenue

SEPTA regional rail

The station at Chelten Avenue, facing the Chelten Avenue bridge in October 2012.

Location

399 Chelten Avenue
(Chelten Avenue & Pulaski Street)
Philadelphia, PA, 19144

Owned by

SEPTA

Line(s)

Chestnut Hill West Line

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Parking

27 spaces

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

1915

Electrified

1918

Services

Preceding station		SEPTA	Following station
Tulpehocken toward Chestnut Hill West		Chestnut Hill West Line	Queen Lane toward Temple University
	Former services
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tulpehocken toward Chestnut Hill		Chestnut Hill Line	Queen Lane toward Suburban Station

Chelten Avenue Station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 315 and 318-20 West Chelten Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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.^[1]

A station has been at this location since 1885. Known initially as Germantown, the 1918 station was named Chelten Avenue to avoid confusion with the Philadelphia & Reading's Germantown station. 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.^[2]

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.

References

↑ "Chelten Avenue Station". Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
↑ 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

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

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

SEPTA

City Transit Division	Market–Frankford Line Broad Street Line Subway–Surface Trolley Lines (Routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36) Route 15 Trackless trolleys (Routes 59, 66, and 75) City surface routes

Suburban Division	Norristown High Speed Line Routes 101 and 102 Suburban bus routes

Regional Rail	Main Line Airport Line Chestnut Hill East Line Chestnut Hill West Line Cynwyd Line Fox Chase Line Lansdale/Doylestown Line Manayunk/Norristown Line Media/Elwyn Line Paoli/Thorndale Line Trenton Line Warminster Line West Trenton Line Wilmington/Newark Line

Major stations	Chester Transportation Center Exton Transportation Center Frankford Transportation Center Fern Rock Transportation Center Jefferson Station King of Prussia Transit Center Norristown Transportation Center Olney Transportation Center Suburban Station West Chester Transportation Center 30th Street Station 69th Street Transportation Center Arrott Transportation Center

Former services	Route 6 trolley Route 23 trolley Route 50 trolley Route 53 trolley Route 56 trolley Route 60 trolley Route 103 trolley Route 104 trolley Elwyn-West Chester service Cynwyd-Ivy Ridge service Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line

Miscellaneous	Roosevelt Boulevard Subway SEPTA Transit Police Silverliner Station lists Regional Rail Ex-Regional Rail Rapid transit Trolley and Interurban Swampoodle Connection

Mass transit in the Delaware Valley

Transit buses	SEPTA Philadelphia Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties Pottstown Pottstown Area Rapid Transit Reading Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority NJ Transit Camden, Gloucester, and Salem County suburban service Camden, Gloucester, and Salem County local service Atlantic and Cape May County local service Long-distance local routes from Philadelphia Long-distance routes from Atlantic City DART First State Kent County New Castle County

Commuter rail	SEPTA Regional Rail Airport Line Chestnut Hill East Line Chestnut Hill West Line Cynwyd Line Fox Chase Line Lansdale/Doylestown Line Manayunk/Norristown Line Media/Elwyn Line Paoli/Thorndale Line Trenton Line Warminster Line West Trenton Line Wilmington/Newark Line NJ Transit Atlantic City Line

Rapid transit and light rail	SEPTA Broad Street Line Market–Frankford Line Norristown High Speed Line Subway–Surface trolleys Route 15 Routes 101 and 102 Delaware River Port Authority PATCO Speedline NJ Transit River Line Proposed Schuylkill Valley Metro (cancelled) Greenline (cancelled) Glassboro–Camden Line Camden-Philadelphia BRT

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