Berwyn (SEPTA station)

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

Berwyn
SEPTA regional rail

Berwyn station

Station statistics

Address

655 Lancaster Avenue
Berwyn, PA

Lines

Parking

99 Spaces

Other information

Opened

1884

Accessible

Owned by

SEPTA

Fare zone

Services

Preceding station		SEPTA		Following station
Daylesford toward Thorndale		R5		Devon toward Doylestown

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 car bridge over the tracks was converted into a pedestrian bridge.

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.