Paoli (SEPTA station)

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Paoli

Station statistics

Address

North Valley Road & Lancaster Avenue
Paoli, PA 19301

Lines

Amrak:

Keystone Service

Pennsylvanian

SEPTA:

R5 line

Other information

Passengers (2006)

80,936

16.1%

Code

PAO

Owned by

Amtrak

Paoli Station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at 13 Lancaster Ave, Paoli, Pennsylvania 19301 [1]. It is served by Amtrak's Keystone Service, Pennsylvanian trains, and most R5 Paoli-Thorndale trains with the exception of the Bryn Mawr locals.

The station has a waiting room and a coffee shop.

The SEPTA ticket office at this station is open weekdays 5:10 a.m. to 6:35 p.m. excluding holidays, Saturdays 7:50 a.m. to 3:40 p.m., and Sundays 8:25 a.m. to 3:40 p.m.. The station waiting room is open during these times.

The Amtrak ticket window is open Monday through Friday 6:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. An Amtrak QuikTrak machine is available when the station is open. There are 176 parking spaces at the station.

This station is in fare zone 4, and is 19.9 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2003, the average total SEPTA R5 weekday boardings at this station was 1,462. In Federal Fiscal Year 2005, there were 69,733 Amtrak boardings plus alightings at this station. Paoli is the 5th busiest Amtrak station in Pennsylvania and 4th busiest in the state serviced by the Keystone Service [2]. Additionally, SEPTA bus routes 133, 204, and 206 also serve the station.

Plans have been drawn up for an expanded Paoli station on the site of the former Pennsylvania Railroad/Amtrak/SEPTA train shed and repair facility in Paoli. This facility was contaminated with PCB's; environmental remediation of the shed property where the future station may stand was completed in 2005 as a Superfund project.

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Amtrak - Stations - Paoli, PA

SEPTA
Paoli Transportation Center plan.
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