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East Falls station

Coordinates: 40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W / 40.0114; -75.1920
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East Falls
East Falls station in December 2012.
General information
Location3600 Midvale Avenue
East Falls, Pennsylvania 19129
Coordinates40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W / 40.0114; -75.1920
Owned bySEPTA
Line(s)Norristown Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsCity Bus SEPTA City Bus: K
Other information
Fare zone1
History
Opened1856[1]
RebuiltNovember 18, 1912[1]
ElectrifiedFebruary 5, 1933[2]
Passengers
2017835 boardings
752 alightings
(weekday average)[3]
Rank21 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Wissahickon Manayunk/​Norristown Line Allegheny
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Wissahickon
toward Pottsville
Main Line 22nd Street
Wissahickon
toward Elm Street
Norristown Branch
Location
Map

East Falls station is a station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line in the East Falls section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at Midvale Avenue & Cresson Street and includes a 51 space parking lot. In FY 2017, East Falls station had a weekday average of 835 boardings and 752 alightings.[4]

Though little more than a pair of platforms with open shelters and a trailer, it serves as a replacement for a former Reading Railroad station[5] which was opened in 1912, and burnt down approximately in 1982.[6] It contains a staircase leading to Cresson Street and the station on the north side of the viaduct over Midvale Avenue, and a pedestrian crosswalk with a traffic signal exclusively for that crosswalk on the south side.

References

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  1. ^ a b "East Falls Station Opened". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved July 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  4. ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.  (539 KB)
  5. ^ Images of former East Falls Reading Railroad station from 1912 and 1978
  6. ^ Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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