Merion station

Merion

Merion station house as seen from across the tracks in July 2005.

General information

Location

293 Idris Road
Merion, Pennsylvania

Coordinates

39°59′51″N 75°15′05″W / 39.997375°N 75.251276°W

Owned by

Amtrak^[1]

Operated by

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Line(s)

Amtrak Keystone Corridor

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Parking

87 spaces^[2]

Bicycle facilities

24 rack spaces^[2]

Accessible

No^[3]

Other information

Fare zone

2^[3]

History

Rebuilt

1917

Electrified

1915^[4]

Passengers

2017

286 weekday boardings^[5]

Services

Preceding station	SEPTA			Following station
Narberth toward Thorndale		Paoli/Thorndale Line		Overbrook toward Temple University

Former services

Preceding station	Amtrak		Following station
Narberth toward Harrisburg		Silverliner Service Stop dropped in 1979	Overbrook toward Philadelphia–Suburban
Preceding station	Pennsylvania Railroad		Following station
Narberth toward Paoli		Paoli Line	Overbrook toward Suburban Station

Merion station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station on the Paoli/Thorndale Line, located in Merion, Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia. Merion has two low-level side platforms with pathways connecting the platforms to the inner tracks.

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History

The station building, constructed in 1917 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, is a designated historic station. It replaced an earlier structure built in the 1860s. It is one of the few historic stations to retain a complex of similarly-designed buildings: the passenger depot on the inbound side, and on the outbound side a still-active post office, outbound waiting room (now unused), and baggage building (also unused). SEPTA completed work to replace the station building's slate tile roof and renovate the outbound canopy in late 2007.

Amtrak stopped some westbound Silverliner Service trains at Merion until 1979.^[6]

References

^ "Transportation Planning for the Philadelphia–Harrisburg "Keystone" Railroad Corridor" (PDF). Federal Railroad Administration. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 21, 2011. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Merion Station". Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Paoli/Thorndale Line Timetable" (PDF). Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. April 16, 2023. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
^ "Electric Service Begins on the P.R.R." The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 12, 1915. p. 4. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). SEPTA. p. 79.
^ National Train Timetables: Effective April 29, 1979. Amtrak. April 29, 1979. p. 21 – via Museum of Railway Timetables.

External links

Media related to Merion (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons

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Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania

Founded 1713

Communities

Educational Institutions

Primary & Secondary Schools	Lower Merion SD Cynwyd ES and Bala Cynwyd MS Harriton HS Lower Merion HS Baldwin French Int'l School Friends' Central Haverford Kohelet Yeshiva HS Kosloff Torah Acad. HS Merion Mercy Acad. Shipley Waldron Mercy
Colleges and universities	Bryn Mawr College Harcum College Rosemont College Joseph Sinnott Mansion St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Saint Joseph's University Haverford College

SEPTA Regional Rail stations

Medical facilities

History

Footnotes

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent township or townships
*The census-designated place is entirely in Lower Merion Township, but there are adjacent areas not in the CDP, with "Bryn Mawr, PA" postal addresses, in adjacent townships