Owned by SEPTA Parking 27 spaces Opened 1915 | Platforms 2 side platforms Fare zone 2 Tracks 2 | |
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Location 399 Chelten Avenue
(Chelten Avenue & Pulaski Street)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19144 Line(s) Chestnut Hill West Line Address Philadelphia, PA 19144, United States Similar Torresdale station, 63rd Street and Malvern, Queen Lane station, Tulpehocken station, Wayne Junction 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.
A station has been at this location since 1885. 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.
The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is 8.1 track miles 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 platform level.