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 2017, East Falls station had a weekday average of 835 boardings and 752 alightings.[4]
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 East Falls station in December 2012. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 3600 Midvale Avenue East Falls, Pennsylvania 19129 | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W | ||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Norristown Branch | ||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  SEPTA City Bus: K | ||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1856[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | November 18, 1912[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | February 5, 1933[2] | ||||||||||||||||
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| 2017 | 835 boardings 752 alightings (weekday average)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 21 of 146 | ||||||||||||||||
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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[5] which was opened in 1912, and burnt down approximately in 1982.[6] 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
edit- ^ a b "East Falls Station Opened". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved July 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014. (539 KB)
- ^ Images of former East Falls Reading Railroad station from 1912 and 1978
- ^ Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
