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Location | Queen Lane & Wissahickon Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°01′24″N75°10′41″W / 40.0233°N 75.1781°W | ||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Connections | SEPTA City Bus: K [1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Parking | 56 spaces [2] | ||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 2 rack spaces [2] | ||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes [1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 1 [1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Electrified | March 22, 1918 [3] | ||||||||||||||||
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2017 | 427 boardings, 352 alightings (weekday average) [4] | ||||||||||||||||
Rank | 58 of 146 | ||||||||||||||||
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Queen Lane station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at 5319 Wissahickon Avenue facing West Queen Lane, it serves the Chestnut Hill West Line.
The station is 7.4 miles (11.9 km) from Suburban Station. In 2004, this station saw 470 boardings on an average weekday. It was built for the Philadelphia, Germantown and Chestnut Hill Railroad, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in 1885 to a design by Washington Bleddyn Powell. [5]
Chestnut Hill is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for the high incomes of its residents and high real estate values, as well as its private schools.
The SEPTA Regional Rail system is a commuter rail network owned by SEPTA and serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its suburbs and satellite towns and cities. It is the sixth-busiest commuter railroad in the United States, and the busiest outside of the New York, Chicago, and Boston metropolitan areas. In 2016, the Regional Rail system had an average of 132,000 daily riders and 118,800 daily riders as of 2019.
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