Spring Mill station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Its official address is Station Avenue near Hector Street, Conshohocken (ZIP code 19428), but it is actually in the Spring Mill section of Whitemarsh Township. The station is located south of Hector Street, where North Lane deadends at the Schuylkill River.
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 Spring Mill station in April 2012. The Schuylkill River Trail is visible to the right. | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 98 Station Avenue, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428 | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Norristown Branch | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections |  Schuylkill River Trail | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | 154 spaces | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 3 | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Electrified | February 5, 1933[1] | ||||||||||||
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| 2017 | 509 boardings 521 alightings (weekday average)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Rank | 49 of 146 | ||||||||||||
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The original station was established by the Reading Railroad about 1880, and took its name from the nearby 18th-century grist mill.
In FY 2013, Spring Mill station had a weekday average of 378 boardings and 358 alightings.[3] It has a 154-space parking lot, and is handicapped-accessible. The Schuylkill River Trail passes next to the station.
Due to the proximity of the Schuylkill River and a pair of tributary streams, the station is periodically subjected to flooding, resulting in the temporary suspension of all service on the Manayunk/Norristown Line.[4][5] A project to replace the line's signal system is underway in 2013 that is intended to confine future flooding closures on the line to the section above Miquon station, by allowing partial service further down the line instead of no service on the line at all.[6]
References
edit- ^ "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 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
- ^ Sunnergren, Tom; et al. (9 September 2011). "Schuylkill to Crest at Over 20 Feet Friday Morning". Plymouth-Whitemarsh Patch. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ^ "SEPTA Team Awarded Grant for Climate Adaptation Plan". SEPTA Sustainability Journal. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ^ "Manayunk/Norristown Line Shuttle Busing: An Explanation". SEPTA. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
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