Fox Chase station
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 Fox Chase Station, December 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 442 Rhawn Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°04′36″N 75°04′57″W / 40.076643°N 75.082487°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Spanish solution (2 side platforms, 1 island platform) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  SEPTA City Bus: 18, 24, 28 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 342 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fox Chase station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located near the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase neighborhood, it is the current terminus of the Fox Chase Line. Fox Chase station, which has the largest number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), is the closest regional rail stop Philadelphia's Fox Chase, Bustleton, and Pine Valley areas, and to Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County.
The station has two tracks and passengers board and exit at ground level. South of the station, the 2 tracks merge into 1 and shortly after, it crosses Oxford Avenue (PA 232) on the line's only grade crossing.
Just north of the station, the now closed portion of the line crosses Rhawn Street at grade and continues into the woods although both tracks are now blocked off with bumper blocks before the road crossing.
SEPTA rebuilt the station area and ticket office in Summer 2010, using funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[1] In FY 2013, Fox Chase station was the ninth busiest station in the SEPTA Regional Rail system, with a weekday average of 1378 boardings and 1327 alightings.[2]
Station layout
| P Platform level | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the left or right | |
| All trains | ← Fox Chase Line toward 30th Street (Ryers) Fox Chase Line alighting passengers only → |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left or right | |
| All trains | ← Fox Chase Line toward 30th Street (Ryers) Fox Chase Line alighting passengers only → |
| Side platform, doors will open on the left or right | |
| Street level | Exit/entrance, parking, buses |
References
- ^ Fox Chase is onboard with Plans for Train Station
- ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
External links
Media related to Fox Chase (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons- Current schedule for the SEPTA Fox Chase/Newtown
- SEPTA – Fox Chase Station
