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Location | 3600 Midvale Avenue East Falls, Pennsylvania 19129 | ||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°00′41″N75°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.
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