East Falls station

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East Falls
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East Falls SEPTA station.jpg
East Falls station in December 2012.
General information
Location3600 Midvale Avenue
East Falls, Pennsylvania 19129
Coordinates 40°00′41″N75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W / 40.0114; -75.1920
Owned by SEPTA
Line(s) Norristown Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsAiga bus trans.svg SEPTA City Bus : K
Other information
Fare zone1
History
Opened1856 [1]
RebuiltNovember 18, 1912 [1]
ElectrifiedFebruary 5, 1933 [2]
Passengers
2017835 boardings
752 alightings
(weekday average) [3]
Rank21 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA.svg SEPTA Following station
Wissahickon Manayunk/Norristown Line Allegheny
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Wissahickon
toward Pottsville
Main Line 22nd Street
toward Philadelphia
Wissahickon
toward Elm Street
Norristown Branch

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]

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.

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References

  1. 1 2 "East Falls Station Opened". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved July 4, 2019 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  2. "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  3. "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  4. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014. (539 KB)
  5. Images of former East Falls Reading Railroad station from 1912 and 1978
  6. Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania