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Location | 21 South Penn Street Hatboro, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°10′32″N75°06′11″W / 40.1756°N 75.1030°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Warminster Branch | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 175 spaces | ||||||||||||
Accessible | No | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 3 | ||||||||||||
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Opened | 1871 | ||||||||||||
Rebuilt | December 1934–June 1, 1935 [1] [2] | ||||||||||||
Electrified | July 26, 1931 [3] | ||||||||||||
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2017 | 500 boardings 530 alightings (weekday average) [4] | ||||||||||||
Rank | 51 of 146 | ||||||||||||
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Hatboro station is a rail station on SEPTA Regional Rail's Warminster Line, formerly the Reading Railroad's New Hope Branch, in Hatboro, Pennsylvania and once terminus for electrified MUs.[ clarification needed ] Electrification was extended to Warminster in 1974. Current trains stopping at Hatboro station are the SEPTA Silverliner IV and the SEPTA Silverliner V. The station is located at the intersection of Byberry Road and Penn Street. The station features a passing siding for handling multiple trains as well as a 100-space parking lot. The current brick construction station stands at 20' x 55' and was built in 1935. An original wood construction freight station was completed in 1871 but no longer stands at the site.
Hatboro station consists of a side platform along the tracks. The station has a waiting room that is open on weekday mornings; the ticket office closed on September 20, 2024. Hatboro station has a parking lot with 100 spaces, with a remote parking area across Byberry Road that contains 75 spaces. Both parking lots charge $1 a day. [5] Parking is also provided at the Hatboro Municipal Parking Lot across Moreland Avenue, which has 93 spaces and charges $1 a day. [5] [6]
Train service at Hatboro station is provided along the Warminster Line of SEPTA Regional Rail, which runs south to Center City Philadelphia and north one stop to its terminus at Warminster. Hatboro station is located in fare zone 3. Service is provided daily from early morning to late evening. Most Warminster Line trains continue through the Center City Commuter Connection tunnel and become Airport Line trains, providing service to the Philadelphia International Airport. [7] In FY 2013, Hatboro station had a weekday average of 457 boardings and 430 alightings. [8]
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