Chelten Avenue station

Chelten Avenue station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located on West Chelten Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the Chestnut Hill West Line. 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.^[6]

Chelten Avenue
Chelten Avenue station, facing the Chelten Avenue bridge in October 2012
General information
Location	359 Chelten Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W / 40.0300°N 75.1812°W / 40.0300; -75.1812
Owned by	Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	SEPTA City Bus: 26, J[1]
Construction
Parking	24 spaces[2]
Bicycle facilities	10 rack spaces[2]
Accessible	No[1]
Other information
Fare zone	1[1]
History
Opened	June 11, 1884 (1884-06-11)[3]
Rebuilt	1915
Electrified	March 22, 1918[4]
Passengers
2017	359 boardings, 307 alightings (weekday average)[5]
Rank	75 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Tulpehocken toward Chestnut Hill West Chestnut Hill West Line Queen Lane toward Temple University
Former services Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Tulpehocken toward Chestnut Hill Chestnut Hill Line Queen Lane toward Suburban Station Tulpehocken toward White Marsh Fort Washington Branch
Location

A station has been at this location since June 11, 1884. Known initially as Germantown, the 1918 station was named Chelten Avenue to avoid confusion with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad's Germantown. 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.^[7]

The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is 8.1 miles (13.0 km) 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 the platform level.