Berwyn (SEPTA station)

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Berwyn station

This article is about a railway station in Pennsylvania. For Berwyn station in Chicago, see Berwyn (CTA).

Berwyn Station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at Cassatt Avenue & Lancaster Pike, Berwyn, PA 19312 [1]. It is served by most R5 Paoli-Thorndale trains.

Berwyn Station was built in 1884, and currently houses The Frame Station Gallery, "a full service gallery and framing design center." [2] The station, platforms, and canopy was recently restored. A pedestrian bridge over the tracks was also built.

The ticket office at this station is open weekdays from 5:45 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. excluding holidays. There are 100 parking spaces and additional SEPTA permit parking at the station.

This station is wheelchair-accessible with short lengths of high-level platforms on both sides of the tracks. The platforms have bridge plates which allow a wheelchair to cross the gap between the platform and the train when it is stopped at the platform.

This station is in fare zone 4 and is 17.5 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2003, the average total weekday boardings at this station was 258.