Congress Avenue station

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Congress Avenue
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General information
LocationGarrett Road & Congress Avenue
Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°57′11″N75°16′45″W / 39.9530°N 75.2792°W / 39.9530; -75.2792
Owned by SEPTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeOpen shelter
History
Electrified Overhead lines
Services
Preceding station SEPTA.svg SEPTA Following station
Lansdowne Avenue Route 101 Beverly Boulevard
Lansdowne Avenue
toward Sharon Hill
Route 102
Future services (2024)
Preceding station SEPTA Metro.svg SEPTA Metro Following station
Lansdowne Avenue SEPTA D1 icon.svg Beverly Boulevard
Lansdowne Avenue SEPTA D2 icon.svg

Congress Avenue station is a SEPTA Media-Sharon Hill Trolley Line stop in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. It is located at Garrett Road and Congress Avenue, and serves both Routes 101 and 102. Only local service is provided on both lines. The station is located on the north side of the terminus of the Congress Avenue intersection. It contains two platforms, but only one pre-fabricated shelter on the south side of the tracks.

Contents

Trolleys arriving at this station travel between 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania and either Orange Street in Media, Pennsylvania for the Route 101 line, or Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania for the Route 102 line. Both lines run parallel to Garrett Road. The station is an open stucco shelter on the south side of an athletic field shared by two Catholic high schools: the Monsignor Bonner High School for boys and the Archbishop Prendergast High School for girls.

Congress Avenue Station is located at the west end of the Beverly Hills Trestle, which originally went over a former right-of-way of the Newtown Square Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a line that ended just west of Fernwood-Yeadon Station on the Media/Wawa Line. That right of way is now part of Naylors Run Park. [1]

Station layout

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Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Outbound      Route 101 toward Woodland Avenue or Media – Orange Street (Lansdowne Avenue)
      Route 102 toward Sharon Hill (Lansdowne Avenue)
Inbound      Route 101 toward 69th Street (Beverly Boulevard)
      Route 102 toward 69th Street (Beverly Boulevard)
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Street levelExit/entrance

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References

  1. "Naylor's Run (Upper Darby Township; Parks & Facilities)". Archived from the original on 2015-03-12. Retrieved 2015-04-04.