Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line

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For the Norfolk Southern (formerly Reading Company) line, see Harrisburg Line.

The Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line is a rail line owned and operated by Amtrak in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line runs from Zoo Interlocking in Philadelphia, where it meets the Northeast Corridor, west to Harrisburg along the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line. It is part of the longer Keystone Corridor, which continues west to Pittsburgh along the Norfolk Southern Railway's Pittsburgh Line.^[1]

Amtrak's Keystone Service and Pennsylvanian operate over the entire line. SEPTA Regional Rail R5 Paoli-Thorndale trains operate east of Thorndale, with the rights to continue revenue service west to Parkesburg and to run west to Cork Interlocking (just east of Amtrak's Lancaster station) to reverse direction.^[1]

Freight trackage rights over the whole line are assigned to the Norfolk Southern Railway. The Canadian Pacific Railway also has rights over a small piece near Harrisburg, from the west end to Roy Interlocking in Royalton, to allow CP trains to get from the end of their Sunbury Line or Allentown to Perryville, Maryland.^[1]

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[edit] Stations and interlockings

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Key

(M) - Block and Interlocking Station (Manned)
(T) - Temporary Block Station
(X) - Interlocking
(D) - DCS Block Limit
R- - Remote Control From
(Line Name) - Interchange with

Milepost	Station	City	Amtrak	SEPTA	Notes
0.0	Suburban Station	Philadelphia		All
1.0	30th Street Station		Keystone Pennsylvanian	All	Amtrak to Washington, DC, New York City, and Boston, Massachusetts, all SEPTA Regional Rail, SEPTA Market-Frankford Line, New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line
1.9	ZOO				(M)(X)(D) (SEPTA Main Line, Amtrak NEC)
3.5	STILES				(X)(D) R-ZOO Tracks 2 and 4 only
4.0	VALLEY				(X)(D) R-OVERBROOK (SEPTA Cynwyd line) Tracks 1 and 2 only
4.1	PAXON				(X)(D) R-ZOO Track 4 only
5.1	WOODBINE				(X)(D) R-ZOO Track 4 only
5.4	Overbrook			R5	(M)(X)(D)
6.0	Merion	Lower Merion		R5
6.8	Narberth	Narberth		R5
7.4	Wynnewood	Lower Merion		R5
8.5	Ardmore		Keystone	R5
9.1	Haverford			R5
10.1	Bryn Mawr			R5	(X)(D) R-PAOLI
10.9	Rosemont			R5
12.0	Villanova	Radnor		R5
13.0	Radnor			R5
13.7	St. Davids			R5
14.5	Wayne			R5
15.4	Strafford	Tredyffrin		R5
16.4	Devon	Easttown		R5
17.5	Berwyn	Easttown		R5
18.6	Daylesford	Tredyffrin		R5
19.9	Paoli	Paoli	Keystone Pennsylvanian	R5	(M)(X)(D)
21.6	Malvern	Malvern		R5
23.9	FRAZER				(X)(D) R-THORN
25.5	GLEN				(X)(D) R-THORN (NS Dale Secondary) Tracks 1 and 2 only
27.5	Exton	Exton	Keystone Pennsylvanian	R5
28.3	Whitford	Exton		R5
32.1	DOWNS				(X)(D) R-THORN
32.4	Downingtown		Keystone Pennsylvanian	R5
35.0	THORN				(M)(X)(D)
35.5	Thorndale			R5
36.6	CALN				(X)(D) R-THORN Track 1 and 2 only.
38.4	Coatesville		Keystone
43.9	PARK				(M)(X)(D) Open as Needed
44.2	Parkesburg		Keystone
	Paradise				planned future station which will connect with the historic Strasburg Rail Road
57.0	LEAMAN				(T)(D)
68.0	Lancaster		Keystone Pennsylvanian
68.1	CORK				(M)(X)(D) (NS Columbia Secondary, NS New Holland Industrial, NS Lititz Secondary)
80.1	Mount Joy		Keystone
83.4	RHEEMS				(X)(D) R-STATE
86.8	Elizabethtown		Keystone Pennsylvanian
94.5	ROY				(X)(D) R-STATE (NS Royalton Branch)
94.7	Middletown
		Harrisburg International Airport			A station to serve the airport is to be located west of the existing Middletown station
104.4	STATE				(M)(X)(D)
104.6	Harrisburg		Keystone Pennsylvanian		End of electrification.
	Lewistown		Pennsylvanian
	Huntingdon		Pennsylvanian
	Tyrone		Pennsylvanian
	Altoona		Pennsylvanian
	Johnstown		Pennsylvanian
	Latrobe		Pennsylvanian
	Greensburg		Pennsylvanian
	Pittsburgh		Pennsylvanian		Connection to Capitol Limited