Yardley station
Yardley  | |||||||||||||
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 Outbound train arriving in 2018 | |||||||||||||
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| Location | Reading Avenue and Main Street Yardley, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°14′06″N 74°49′52″W / 40.2351°N 74.8310°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Neshaminy Line | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | 275 | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 2 bike racks (4 total spots) | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||||
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| Opened | April 27, 1876 (ceremonial service)[1][2] May 1, 1876 (regular service)[3][2] | ||||||||||||
| Electrified | July 26, 1931[4] | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 349 boardings 328 alightings (weekday average)[5] | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 79 of 146 | ||||||||||||
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Yardley station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Yardley, Pennsylvania.[6] It is located at Main Street and Reading Avenue and serves the West Trenton Line to New Jersey.[6] The station has off-street parking. In FY 2017, Yardley station had a weekday average of 349 boardings and 328 alightings.[7] By August 2015, as a result of the SEPTA and CSX separation between Woodbourne and West Trenton stations,[8] the outbound platform was removed, and all SEPTA traffic was diverted onto the Inbound track. Currently, all SEPTA service between Yardley and West Trenton operates on the Inbound track only.
History
[edit]The station was originally built to be part of the Bound Brook branch of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad (P&R). In 1874, it was announced that the P&R would build a line from Jenkintown station to the Delaware River where it would have a bridge to connect it to the Delaware and Bound Railroad.[9]
Station layout
[edit]Yardley consists of a single high-level side platform.
Bibliography
[edit]- Poor, Henry Varnum (1865). Manual of the Railroads of the United States: Volume 27. H.V. & H.W. Poor.
- Warner, Paul T. (May 1957). "Eight-Wheelers Between New York and Philadelphia 1870 - 1900". The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (96): 44–62. ISSN 0033-8842. JSTOR 43520154.
References
[edit]- ^ "Opening a New Rail Route". The Lancaster Intelligencer. May 3, 1876. p. 2. Retrieved September 6, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Warner 1957, p. 53–54.
- ^ Poor 1865, p. 711.
- ^ "Reading Installs Electric Service". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 26, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ a b SEPTA. "Yardley Station". Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ "Fiscal Year 2020: Annual Service Plan" (PDF). septa.org. SEPTA. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ "SEPTA Train Service On West Trenton Line To Be Replaced By Shuttle Bus On Monday". LevittownNow.com. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ Warner 1957, p. 53.
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