Yardley station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Yardley, Pennsylvania.[6] It is located at Main Street and Reading Avenue and serves the West Trenton Line to New Jersey.[6] The station has off-street parking. In FY 2017, Yardley station had a weekday average of 349 boardings and 328 alightings.[7] By August 2015, as a result of the SEPTA and CSX separation between Woodbourne and West Trenton stations,[8] the outbound platform was removed, and all SEPTA traffic was diverted onto the Inbound track. Currently, all SEPTA service between Yardley and West Trenton operates on the Inbound track only.
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General information | |||||||||||||
Location | Reading Avenue and Main Street Yardley, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°14′06″N 74°49′52″W / 40.2351°N 74.8310°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Neshaminy Line | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||
Parking | 275 | ||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | 2 bike racks (4 total spots) | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||
Fare zone | 4 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | April 27, 1876 (ceremonial service)[1][2] May 1, 1876 (regular service)[3][2] | ||||||||||||
Electrified | July 26, 1931[4] | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2017 | 349 boardings 328 alightings (weekday average)[5] | ||||||||||||
Rank | 79 of 146 | ||||||||||||
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History
editThe station was originally built to be part of the Bound Brook branch of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad (P&R). In 1874, it was announced that the P&R would build a line from Jenkintown station to the Delaware River where it would have a bridge to connect it to the Delaware and Bound Railroad.[9]
Station layout
editYardley consists of a single high-level side platform.
Bibliography
edit- Poor, Henry Varnum (1865). Manual of the Railroads of the United States: Volume 27. H.V. & H.W. Poor.
- Warner, Paul T. (May 1957). "Eight-Wheelers Between New York and Philadelphia 1870 - 1900". The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (96): 44–62. ISSN 0033-8842. JSTOR 43520154.
References
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- ^ a b Warner 1957, p. 53–54.
- ^ Poor 1865, p. 711.
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- ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
- ^ a b SEPTA. "Yardley Station". Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ "Fiscal Year 2020: Annual Service Plan" (PDF). septa.org. SEPTA. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ "SEPTA Train Service On West Trenton Line To Be Replaced By Shuttle Bus On Monday". LevittownNow.com. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ Warner 1957, p. 53.