North Philadelphia (SEPTA Regional Rail station)

North Philadelphia
Amtrak station
SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail station

North Philadelphia station looking northeast

Station statistics

Address

2900 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA

Lines

Amtrak:

Keystone Service

Northeast Regional

SEPTA:

Trenton Line

Chestnut Hill West Line

Connections

Broad Street Line Local

Broad Street Line Ridge Spur

SEPTA City Bus: 54, C

Platforms

1 side platform, 1 island platform (Amtrak and Trenton Line)
2 side platforms (Chestnut Hill West Line)

Tracks

4 (Amtrak and Trenton Line)
2 (Chestnut Hill West Line)

Parking

333 spaces

Other information

Opened

1896^[1]

Rebuilt

1999

Accessible

Code

PHN

Owned by

Amtrak

Fare zone

C (SEPTA)

Traffic

Passengers (2009)

164 (daily) 11% (SEPTA)

Passengers (2010)

345^[2] (annually) 36% (Amtrak)

Services

Preceding station	Amtrak	Following station
Philadelphia toward Harrisburg	Keystone Service	Cornwells Heights toward New York City
Philadelphia toward Newport News or Lynchburg	Northeast Regional	Cornwells Heights toward Boston South Station or Springfield
SEPTA
Queen Lane toward Chestnut Hill West	Chestnut Hill West Line	30th Street Station toward Temple University
Bridesburg toward Trenton	Trenton Line	30th Street Station toward Temple University

Germantown Junction Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


Location:	2900 North Broad Street North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Built:	1896
Architect:	Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr.; Roydhouse Arey & Co.
Architectural style:	Renaissance, Other
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	92000940^[3]
Added to NRHP:	July 8, 1999

North Philadelphia, formerly Germantown Junction Station,^[3] is a railroad station on the Northeast Corridor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is an above-ground station at 2900 North Broad Street in the city's North Philadelphia section. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's (SEPTA) Regional Rail accounts for most of the station's service, and five Amtrak trains stop each weekday.

1 Layout and service
2 History and architecture
3 References
4 External links

Layout and service

The station is 4.4 miles from upper level 30th St Station via the outbound track, or 4.5 miles via the inbound. It is immediately northeast of where SEPTA's Chestnut Hill West Line diverges from the Northeast Corridor, which carries SEPTA's Trenton Line. Platforms for the two lines are a short distance apart.

Two high-level island platforms serve three of the four Northeast Corridor tracks. The Trenton Line trains make regular stops at these platforms. The station and tracks are owned by Amtrak, and five of their trains stop at this station each weekday.^[4]^[5] On the SEPTA-owned Chestnut Hill West line, two low-level platforms serve Chestnut Hill West trains, which normally treat North Philadelphia as a flag stop.^[6]

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, restaurants, and access to Broad Street businesses. As of 2006, the SEPTA Trenton and Chestnut Hill West had an average of 219 weekday boardings and 245 weekday disembarks.^[7] These numbers are a key reason why North Philadelphia is among Amtrak's least busy stations.^[8]

History and architecture

According to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project, the main structure of the station was built from 1896 to 1901 for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and was designed by Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr. After construction, it served as Philadelphia's sole stop for virtually the entire PRR east/west main line traffic, including such crack runs as The General. The Spirit of St. Louis and the legendary Broadway Limited train,^[9] as well as the General Motors Aerotrain. The station includes a 333-space parking lot, and is on the National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Building Survey.

References

External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:North_Philadelphia_(Amtrak-SEPTA_station) North Philadelphia (Amtrak-SEPTA station)] at Wikimedia Commons

Amtrak – Stations – North Philadelphia, PA
Trenton and Chestnut Hill West station pages on SEPTA's official website
Daniel Campo, "Train Wreck," City Paper, 24 January 2007
North Philadelphia Amtrak-SEPTA Station (USA RailGuide -- TrainWeb)
Station from Google Maps Street View

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania

Topics	Contributing property Keeper of the Register Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Property types

Lists by county	Adams Allegheny Armstrong Beaver Bedford Berks Blair Bradford Bucks Butler Cambria Cameron Carbon Centre Chester: (East North South) Clarion Clearfield Clinton Columbia Crawford Cumberland Dauphin Delaware Elk Erie Fayette Forest Franklin Fulton Greene Huntingdon Indiana Jefferson Juniata Lackawanna Lancaster Lawrence Lebanon Lehigh Luzerne Lycoming McKean Mercer Mifflin Monroe Montgomery Montour Northampton Northumberland Perry Philadelphia Pike Potter Schuylkill Snyder Somerset Sullivan Susquehanna Tioga Union Venango Warren Washington Wayne Westmoreland Wyoming York

Lists by city	Pittsburgh Lancaster Philadelphia: (Center City North Northeast Northwest South Southwest West)

Other lists	Bridges (covered bridges) National Historic Landmarks (Philadelphia)

Category:National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Portal:National Register of Historic Places

SEPTA

City Transit Division	Market–Frankford Line • Broad Street Line • Subway–Surface Trolley Lines (Routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36) • Route 15 • Trackless trolleys • City surface routes

Suburban Division	Norristown High Speed Line • Routes 101 and 102 • Suburban bus routes

Regional Rail	Main Line • Airport Line • Chestnut Hill East Line • Chestnut Hill West Line • Cynwyd Line • Fox Chase Line • Lansdale/Doylestown Line • Manayunk/Norristown Line • Media/Elwyn Line • Paoli/Thorndale Line • Trenton Line • Warminster Line • West Trenton Line • Wilmington/Newark Line

Major stations	Frankford Transportation Center • Fern Rock Transportation Center • Market East Station • Norristown Transportation Center • Olney Transportation Center • Suburban Station • 30th Street Station • 69th Street Transportation Center

Former services	Route 6 trolley • Route 23 trolley • Route 56 trolley • Route 60 trolley • Elwyn-West Chester service • Cynwyd-Ivy Ridge service • Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line • SEPTA diesel service

Mass transit in the Delaware Valley

Transit buses	SEPTA: Philadelphia • Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties Pottstown: Pottstown Area Rapid Transit Reading: Berks Area Regional Transportation Authority New Jersey Transit: Camden, Gloucester, and Salem County suburban service • Camden, Gloucester, and Salem County local service • Long-distance local routes from Philadelphia DART First State: New Castle County

Commuter rail	SEPTA Regional Rail: Airport Line • Chestnut Hill East Line • Chestnut Hill West Line • Cynwyd Line • Fox Chase Line • Lansdale/Doylestown Line • Manayunk/Norristown Line • Media/Elwyn Line • Paoli/Thorndale Line • Trenton Line • Warminster Line • West Trenton Line • Wilmington/Newark Line New Jersey Transit: Atlantic City Line • ACES

Rapid transit and light rail	SEPTA: Broad Street Line • Market–Frankford Line • Norristown High Speed Line • Subway–Surface trolleys • Route 15 • Routes 101 and 102 Delaware River Port Authority: PATCO Speedline New Jersey Transit: River Line Other: Greenline (proposed)

Related Organizations	Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission • Pennsylvania Transit Expansion Coalition (PA-TEC) • National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) • Delaware Valley Association of Railroad Passengers (DVARP)

North Philadelphia (SEPTA Regional Rail station)

Contents

Layout and service

History and architecture

References

External links