East Falls station
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Location | 3600 Midvale Avenue East Falls, PA, 19129 | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Norristown Line | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Electrified | 1931 | ||||||||||||
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East Falls station is a station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line in the East Falls section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at Midvale Avenue & Cresson Street and includes a 51 space parking lot. In FY 2013, East Falls station had a weekday average of 625 boardings and 553 alightings.[1]
Though little more than a pair of platforms with open shelters and a trailer, it serves as a replacement for a former Reading Railroad station[2] which was opened in 1912, and burnt down approximately in 1982.[3] It contains a staircase leading to Cresson Street and the station on the north side of the viaduct over Midvale Avenue, and a pedestrian crosswalk with a traffic signal exclusively for that crosswalk on the south side.
References
- ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.
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- ^ Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania