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Location | Bridge Street & Pennsylvania Avenue Oreland, PA 19075 | |||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°07′05″N75°11′02″W / 40.1181°N 75.1839°W | |||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | |||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | SEPTA Main Line | |||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
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Platform levels | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
Accessible | No | |||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1890 | |||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | July 26, 1931 [1] | |||||||||||||||||
Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
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Oreland station is a railroad station along the SEPTA Lansdale/Doylestown Line near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The station, located at the intersection of Bridge Street and Bruce Road, includes a 99-space parking lot. In FY 2013, Oreland station had a weekday average of 276 boardings and 256 alightings. [2] The current station was built by the Reading Railroad (RDG) in 1931, as a replacement for a station built in 1890. [3]
Oreland has two low-level side platforms.
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