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Location | County Line Road near Matsonford Road Radnor Township, Pennsylvania. | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°03′00″N75°20′51″W / 40.0499°N 75.3474°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | No | ||||||||||||
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Opened | c. 1930s | ||||||||||||
Electrified | Third rail | ||||||||||||
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County Line station is an interurban rapid transit station on the SEPTA Norristown High Speed Line (Route 100). The station is located on County Line Road near Matsonford Road in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania. [1] All trains stop at the County Line. Trains running south of this station cross under the Keystone Corridor (Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line) that carries the Paoli/Thorndale Line as well as Amtrak's Pennsylvanian and Keystone Service trains. The station lies 8.6 track miles (13.8 km) from 69th Street Terminal.
The station was built as an infill station in the 1930s[ when? ] along the Lehigh Valley Transit Company line. The community raised $1,300 for the station's construction. [2]
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