Exton station (Pennsylvania)

Exton
Amtrak station SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail station
Exton station in January 2013.
Location	425 Walkertown Road Exton, PA 19341
Coordinates	40°01′10″N 75°37′18″W / 40.0195°N 75.6218°W / 40.0195; -75.6218Coordinates: 40°01′10″N 75°37′18″W / 40.0195°N 75.6218°W / 40.0195; -75.6218
Owned by	Amtrak[1]
Operated by	Amtrak & SEPTA
Line(s)	SEPTA:   Paoli/Thorndale Line Amtrak:   Keystone Service   Pennsylvanian
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Connections	SEPTA Suburban Bus: 92 Krapf Transit: Route A WCU shuttle[2]
Construction
Parking	643 spaces (555 daily, 88 permit)
Bicycle facilities	4 racks (8 spaces)
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	EXT (Amtrak)
Fare zone	4 (SEPTA)
History
Opened	1981
Traffic
Passengers (2013)	109,980[3]  3.2% (Amtrak)
Passengers (2012)	586 (weekday boardings)[4] (SEPTA)
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station Whitford toward Thorndale Paoli/Thorndale Line Malvern toward Temple University Amtrak Downingtown toward Harrisburg Keystone Service Paoli toward New York City Lancaster toward Pittsburgh Pennsylvanian

Exton is a train station in Exton, Pennsylvania, in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.^[5] It is served by Amtrak's Keystone Service and Pennsylvanian line, as well as SEPTA's Paoli/Thorndale Line. The station is located close to the former Whiteland station served by the former Pennsylvania Railroad.

There is no ticket office at the station. Unlike other stations served by SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line trains west of Philadelphia along the former Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line, the station is not located within the built-up portion of the community; it is merely a park-and-ride station along PA 100, near the highway's interchange with U.S. Route 30. There are 643 parking spaces at the station. Parking was last expanded in late 2009.

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 is 27.7 track miles from Philadelphia's Suburban Station. In 2011, the average total SEPTA weekday boardings at this station was 586.^[4]

History

In late 2013, SEPTA developed renderings of a proposed station improvement plan.^[6] The plan calls for near-full-length high-level boarding platforms on the inbound and outbound side of the tracks, a station building to be used as a waiting area, an extended exterior waiting canopy, as well as open-air shelters with glass windscreens.

References

External links

• SEPTA – Exton Station

• Amtrak – Stations – Exton, PA
• Exton Amtrak-SEPTA Station (USA Rail Guide – Train Web)
• Exton, PA (EXT) (Amtrak's Great American Stations)