Malvern station (SEPTA)

Malvern

General information

Location

61 North Warren Avenue
Malvern, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Coordinates

40°02′11″N 75°30′56″W / 40.0363°N 75.5155°W

Owned by

Amtrak^[1]^[2]

Operated by

SEPTA

Line(s)

Amtrak Keystone Corridor
(Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line)

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Connections

SEPTA Suburban Bus: 92 (on King Street)

Construction

Parking

323 spaces (daily)

Bicycle facilities

3 racks (6 spaces)

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

1900^[3]

Rebuilt

2013

Electrified

January 15, 1938^[4]

Passengers

2017

811 boardings
825 alightings
(weekday average)^[5]

Rank

23 of 146

Services

Preceding station	SEPTA			Following station
Exton toward Thorndale		Paoli/Thorndale Line		Paoli toward Temple University

Former services

Preceding station	Amtrak		Following station
Exton toward Harrisburg		Keystone Service Before 1988	Paoli toward Philadelphia–Suburban
Preceding station	Pennsylvania Railroad		Following station
Frazer toward Chicago		Main Line	Green Tree toward New York or Exchange Place

Malvern station is a SEPTA Regional Rail and a former Amtrak station in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Located at West King Road and North Warren Avenue, it serves most Paoli/Thorndale Line trains. Until 1998, some Keystone Service trains stopped here as well.

There are 323 parking spaces at the station for daily parking. This station is 21.8 track miles from Philadelphia's Suburban Station. In 2017, the average total weekday boardings at this station was 811, and the average total weekday alightings was 825.^[6] Malvern is also the western terminal of the line on Sundays.

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History

The station was originally built in 1900 by the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1968, it merged with its longtime rival New York Central Railroad to form the Penn Central Railroad. With railroad passenger service declining in the United States, passenger service was acquired by Amtrak in 1971^[7] which ran Keystone and Keystone State Express trains. Penn Central continued to struggle to provide commuter service until it was acquired by Conrail in 1976, and SEPTA in 1983. SEPTA designated this as the R5 Paoli/Thorndale line.

In 2010 SEPTA began construction of a new passenger access tunnel along with handicap ramps and stairways to the platforms. The project included improved parking lots. SEPTA has received frequent criticism for spending $9.2 million to build the ramps because there is currently no way for a person in a wheelchair to get from the platform to the train. A person in a wheelchair, as of now, could only get from the parking lot to the station platform.^[8]

Station layout

Malvern has two low-level side platforms. Some SEPTA trains terminate/originate here.

Gallery

Station entrance
Handicap ramps
Station signage
Westbound train
Station building

References

^ "Transportation Planning for the Philadelphia–Harrisburg "Keystone" Railroad Corridor" (PDF). Federal Railroad Administration. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 21, 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
^ "Malvern District Awaits End of SEPTA Project". Philly.com. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
^ Existing Railroad Stations in Chester County, Pennsylvania
^ "Pennsy Completes New Electric Link". The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. January 15, 1938. p. 1. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
^ "Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). SEPTA. pp. 43–46.
^ Amtrak (1 May 1971). "Nationwide Schedule of Intercity Passenger Service". timetables.org. The Museum of Railway Timetables. p. 4. Retrieved 7 Mar 2014.
^ "Wheelchair Users Can't Board Trains in Malvern, Despite Ramps". Malvern, PA Patch. 2013-02-14. Retrieved 2022-05-15.

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