Allegheny station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Allegheny
SEPTA regional rail

The Allegheny station as seen in December 2012.
Location 22nd Street and Allegheny Avenue
Swampoodle, Philadelphia, PA
Coordinates 40°00′13″N 75°09′54″W / 40.0037°N 75.1650°W / 40.0037; -75.1650Coordinates: 40°00′13″N 75°09′54″W / 40.0037°N 75.1650°W / 40.0037; -75.1650
Owned by SEPTA
Line(s)
  Manayunk/Norristown Line
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections SEPTA City Bus: 33, 60
Other information
Fare zone 1
History
Opened 1938[1]
Electrified 1931
Previous names 22nd Street
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
Manayunk/Norristown Line
toward Elm Street
  Former services  
Preceding station   Reading Railroad   Following station
Terminus
Norristown Branch
toward Elm Street

Allegheny station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line located at 22nd Street and Allegheny Avenue in the Swampoodle neighborhood of North Philadelphia.[2] It has also been known in Reading and early SEPTA timetables as 22nd Street or Twenty-Second Street, a name also shared by a former Pennsylvania Railroad station on the Trenton and Chestnut Hill lines. Allegheny station is the first station along SEPTA's Manayunk/Norristown Line not to be shared with any other line. In FY 2013, Allegheny station had a weekday average of 76 boardings and 102 alightings.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". Pennsylvania Stations.
  2. ↑ "Allegheny Station". SEPTA. Archived from the original on July 6, 2005.
  3. ↑ "Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). SEPTA. May 2014. p. 62. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.


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