Temple University (SEPTA station)

Temple University SEPTA regional rail station
Passengers on the inbound platform of Temple University station
Station statistics
Address	915 West Berks Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39.9816°N 75.1495°W / 39.9816; -75.1495
Lines	Airport Line   Chestnut Hill East Line   Chestnut Hill West 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
Connections	SEPTA City Bus 3, 23, 47
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	1993
Accessible
Owned by	SEPTA
Fare zone	C
Traffic
Passengers (2005)	1.311 million  154%
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Market East Station toward Airport Terminals Airport Line Terminus Market East Station toward 30th Street Station Chestnut Hill East Line Wayne Junction toward Chestnut Hill East Market East Station toward Chestnut Hill West Chestnut Hill West Line Terminus Market East Station toward 30th Street Station Fox Chase Line Wayne Junction toward Fox Chase Lansdale/Doylestown Line North Broad toward Doylestown Manayunk/Norristown Line North Broad toward Elm Street, Norristown Market East Station toward Elwyn Media/Elwyn Line Terminus Market East Station toward Thorndale Paoli/Thorndale Line Market East Station toward Trenton Trenton Line Market East Station toward University City Warminster Line Wayne Junction toward Warminster West Trenton Line Wayne Junction toward West Trenton Market East Station toward Newark Wilmington/Newark Line Terminus

Temple University station is an above-ground SEPTA Regional Rail station located at the eastern edge of the Temple University campus at 915 West Berks Street between 9th and 10th Streets, in North Philadelphia.

Station history

Temple University Station, from the northern end.

Temple University Station is in the Center City fare zone, although the station itself is located in North Philadelphia.

The station was opened in 1993 and was built for $37 million as part of SEPTA's RailWorks project to rebuild the Reading Railroad viaduct in North Philadelphia. The station sits on the Reading side of the system and almost all trains stop here.

The new station replaced the older Temple U station at Columbia Avenue (whose name the station originally carried; since renamed Cecil B. Moore Avenue). The old station had two island platforms serving all four tracks, but was served by only a few peak hour trains by the time SEPTA began operation of the railroad.

Built in 1911, the old Temple U station achieved infamy in November 1984 when SEPTA was forced to shut down the Reading side of the railroad above North Broad Street Station. A few days after the Center City Commuter Connection and Market East Station fully opened, some of the girders supporting the tracks in the platform area on the bridge over the avenue were discovered to be in imminent danger of collapse. The emergency repairs, completed early in 1985, included demolishing the station and replacing it with temporary wooden low-level platforms and steel stairs which served until the new station opened. This event helped draw attention to the deterioration of North American railroad and transit infrastructure; the two-year-long RailWorks project which resulted would provide a permanent, modern station at a location more convenient to Temple's campus.

There is now a small ticket kiosk located at the base of the stairs on the street level.

Temple University maintains a security kiosk at street level. Stairways and two elevators lead up to the high-level platforms at track level. There are two island platforms serving four tracks. Each platform is 380 feet (115.824 meters) long, long enough to platform four cars with only the end doors being used. The platforms have a canopy overhead and some wind-breaking walls, but are otherwise exposed to the weather.

This station is located approximately 2.6 track miles from Suburban Station. In FY 2005, Temple University station was the fourth busiest station in SEPTA's Regional Rail system, with 2,448 average total weekday boardings and 2,593 average weekday alightings.

External links

Media related to Temple University (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons

• SEPTA - Temple University Station
• Berks Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Norris Street entrance from Google Maps Street View