Exton station (Pennsylvania)

Not to be confused with Exton Transportation Center.
Exton
(Whiteland)
Amtrak station
SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail station

Exton station in January 2013.
Location 425 Walkertown Road
Exton, PA 19341
Coordinates 40°01′10″N 75°37′18″W / 40.0195°N 75.6218°W / 40.0195; -75.6218Coordinates: 40°01′10″N 75°37′18″W / 40.0195°N 75.6218°W / 40.0195; -75.6218
Owned by Amtrak[1]
Operated by Amtrak & SEPTA
Line(s)

SEPTA:

  Paoli/Thorndale Line

Amtrak:

  Keystone Service
  Pennsylvanian
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 3
Connections SEPTA Suburban Bus: 92
Krapf Transit: Route A
WCU shuttle[2]
Construction
Parking 643 spaces (555 daily, 88 permit)
Bicycle facilities 4 racks (8 spaces)
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code EXT (Amtrak)
Fare zone 4 (SEPTA)
History
Opened 1981
Traffic
Passengers (2015) 113,974[3] Increase 6.5% (Amtrak)
Passengers (2012) 586 (weekday boardings)[4] (SEPTA)
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
toward Thorndale
Paoli/Thorndale Line
Amtrak
toward Harrisburg
Keystone Service
toward Pittsburgh
Pennsylvanian
  Former services  
Pennsylvania Railroad
toward Chicago
Main Line

Exton is a train station in Exton, Pennsylvania, in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.[5] It is served by most Amtrak Keystone Service trains and one daily eastbound Pennsylvanian trip, as well as SEPTA's Paoli/Thorndale Line. The station is located close to the former Whiteland station served by the former Pennsylvania Railroad.

There is no ticket office at the station. Unlike other stations served by SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line trains west of Philadelphia along the former Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line, the station is not located within the built-up portion of the community; it is merely a park-and-ride station along PA 100, near the highway's interchange with U.S. Route 30. There are 643 parking spaces at the station. Parking was last expanded in late 2009.

This station is wheelchair-accessible with short lengths of high-level platforms on both sides of the tracks. The platforms have bridge plates which allow a wheelchair to cross the gap between the platform and the train when it is stopped at the platform. This is 27.7 track miles from Philadelphia's Suburban Station. In 2011, the average total SEPTA weekday boardings at this station was 586.[4]

History

In late 2013, SEPTA developed renderings of a proposed station improvement plan.[6] The plan calls for near-full-length high-level boarding platforms on the inbound and outbound side of the tracks, a station building to be used as a waiting area, an extended exterior waiting canopy, as well as open-air shelters with glass windscreens.

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Exton Train Station Shuttle Bus".
  3. ↑ "Amtrak State Fact Sheet, FY2015, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). SEPTA. pp. 71–72. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Google Maps
  6. ↑ "Exton Station Improvements" (PDF). Retrieved 18 April 2014.

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