North Philadelphia station

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North Philadelphia
Station statistics
Address	2900 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA
Lines	Amtrak: Keystone Service Northeast Regional SEPTA: R7 R8
Parking	333 spaces
Other information
Code	PHN
Owned by	Amtrak
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	120,640 ▲ 53% (SEPTA)
Passengers (2007)	257 ▼ 59% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Philadelphia toward Harrisburg Keystone Service Cornwells Heights toward New York Philadelphia toward Newport News Northeast Regional Cornwells Heights toward Boston (South) or Springfield Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Bridesburg toward Trenton R7 30th Street Station toward Chestnut Hill East Queen Lane toward Chestnut Hill West R8 30th Street Station toward Fox Chase

Germantown Junction Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	2900 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:	39°59′49.04″N 75°8′55.58″W / 39.9969556, -75.1487722Coordinates: 39°59′49.04″N 75°8′55.58″W / 39.9969556, -75.1487722
Built/Founded:	1896
Architect:	Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr.; Roydhouse Arey & Co.
Architectural style(s):	Renaissance, Other
Added to NRHP:	July 08, 1999
NRHP Reference#:	92000940[1]
Governing body:	Private

North Philadelphia is a railroad station on the Northeast Corridor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It is an aboveground station located at 2900 North Broad Street at Glenwood Avenue in the city's North Philadelphia section. It was formerly known as the Germantown Junction Station. SEPTA Regional Rail accounts for most of the station's service, and a few Amtrak trains stop each day as well.

Contents 1 Station layout and service 2 Architecture 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Station layout and service

The station is located immediately north of where SEPTA's R8 Chestnut Hill West line diverges from the Northeast Corridor, which carries SEPTA's R7 Trenton line. Platforms are located on both lines, a short distance away from each other.

On the Northeast Corridor, there are two high-level center-island platforms that serve four tracks. The R7 Trenton trains make regular stops at these platforms. The station and tracks are owned by Amtrak and a limited number of Amtrak trains make scheduled stops at this station.

On the Chestnut Hill West line, which is owned by SEPTA, a pair of low-level platforms serves R8 trains, which normally treat North Philadelphia as a flag stop.

The station is within a few blocks of the North Broad station on SEPTA's Main Line (formerly belonging to the Reading Company), and the North Philadelphia subway station on SEPTA's Broad Street Line. The station has SEPTA ticket offices, retail shops and restaurants, and access to Broad Street area businesses. The SEPTA R7 and R8, as of 2006, had 219 average weekday boardings and 245 average weekday alightings.^[2] It is among Amtrak's least busy stations.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Architecture

The station building is on the National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Building Survey. It was built from 1896 to 1901 for the Pennsylvania Railroad with Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr. as the architect, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project.

The station currently includes a 333-space parking lot.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Amtrak - Stations - North Philadelphia, PA

• Ridership figures, FY 2004
• Ridership figures, FY 2005
• Ridership figures, FY 2006
• Ridership figures, FY 2007

• R7 and R8 station pages on SEPTA's official website
• Daniel Campo, "Train Wreck," City Paper, 24 January 2007

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