Chelten Avenue (SEPTA station)

Chelten Avenue
SEPTA regional rail
The station at Chelten Avenue, facing the Chelten Avenue bridge in October 2012.
Location	399 Chelten Avenue (Chelten Avenue & Pulaski Street) Philadelphia, PA, 19144
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	Chestnut Hill West Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	27 spaces
Other information
Fare zone	2
History
Opened	1915
Electrified	1918
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Tulpehocken toward Chestnut Hill West Chestnut Hill West Line Queen Lane toward Temple University   Former services   Pennsylvania Railroad Tulpehocken toward Chestnut Hill Chestnut Hill Line Queen Lane toward Suburban Station

Chelten Avenue Station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 315 and 318-20 West Chelten Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The concrete station structure, part of a Pennsylvania Railroad grade-separation project completed in 1918 in conjunction with electrification of the line, was designed by William Holmes Cookman.^[1]

A station has been at this location since 1885. Known initially as Germantown, the 1918 station was named Chelten Avenue to avoid confusion with the Philadelphia & Reading's Germantown station. The original station building was a two-story stone structure at street level on the outbound side. Retained in that general location after the 1918 grade separation, it was demolished circa 1958, replaced by a small brick ticket office on the inbound side which remains in use today.^[2]

The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is 8.1 track miles from Suburban Station. It contains concrete-arch covered staircases on all four corners of the Chelten Avenue Bridge over the tracks leading to the station platforms. In 2004, this station saw 441 boardings on an average weekday. Despite having high-level platforms, the station is not ADA accessible, as it lacks ramps or elevators from the street down to platform level.

References

External links

• SEPTA – Chelten Avenue Station
• Chelten Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

Coordinates: 40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W / 40.0300°N 75.1812°W / 40.0300; -75.1812

An older version of the former Chelten Avenue PRR station (erroneously spelled "Chelton Avenue" station).

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