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Location | Mascher Street and Tabor Road Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Fox Chase Branch | ||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Connections | SEPTA City Bus : 8 | ||||||||||||||||
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Parking | 61 spaces | ||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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Opened | February 4, 1878 [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1906 | ||||||||||||||||
Electrified | yes | ||||||||||||||||
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The original station building was constructed in 1906 by the Reading Railroad. It was boarded up in the 1980s, and was demolished in 2008. [3] Olney is the last stop inbound before Wayne Junction, where it merges with the Warminster, West Trenton, Lansdale/Doylestown, and Chestnut Hill East lines.
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