Moylan–Rose Valley station
Appearance
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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°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/Wawa Line. The station has a 149-space parking lot and a post office at the station. The Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is about 100 yards north of the station.
History
[edit]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.
Station layout
[edit]Moylan–Rose Valley has two low-level side platforms with a connecting pathway across the tracks.
Gallery
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Eastbound (inbound) platform
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Westbound (outbound) shelter
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Train arriving from Philadelphia
References
[edit]- ^ "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
[edit]Media related to Moylan – Rose Valley (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons