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Narberth station (SEPTA)

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Narberth station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Narberth, Pennsylvania . Located at Haverford and Narberth Avenues in Narberth, Pennsylvania , it serves most Paoli/Thorndale Line trains with the exception of several express runs.

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7-491: The station was rebuilt around 1980 in a minimalist style common to that era, replacing a dilapidated wooden structure, under an agreement between SEPTA and the Narberth Borough Council, championed by Narberth Councilman Bharat Bhargava. The Ivy Ridge station was also built in the same style. A train crash occurred on the curve here on November 21, 1984 injuring 150 people. The ticket office at this station

14-653: A 39-step stairway connecting the derelict PRR upper level and RDG lower level station sites. In the beginning, the steep staircase discouraged ridership, but this changed as ridership grew in the 1990s. While the PRR platform was built to high level standards (a rarity on the SEPTA Regional Rail system), and was constructed before the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 , the hastily constructed RDG station platform are low level. The derelict upper level platform

21-518: A minimalist design similar to that of Elm Street, Norristown . The current station has a 204-space parking lot. In FY 2013, Ivy Ridge station had a weekday average of 602 boardings and 582 alightings. SEPTA constructed Ivy Ridge in 1980 when service was extended an additional 0.8 miles (1.3 km) past Manayunk West station , the passenger terminus of the Pennsylvania Railroad 's (PRR) Schuylkill Branch since 1960. Up until then,

28-440: Is open weekdays 6:15 a.m. to 1:35 p.m. excluding holidays. There are 111 parking spaces at the station, with 3 bicycle racks accommodating up to 15 bicycles. This station is in fare zone 2 and is 6.8 track miles from Suburban Station . In 2017, the average total weekday boardings at this station was 714, and the average total weekday alightings was 713. Narberth has two low-level side platforms with pathways connecting

35-539: The 0.8 miles (1.3 km) of track had been used by Manayunk trains to change direction within a remotely controlled interlocking where the Schuylkill Branch (by that time, abandoned north of this point) went from two tracks to one. The single-platform Ivy Ridge station was constructed within the space occupied by the abandoned second track, removed in the early 1960s after the PRR discontinued passenger service to Norristown . A moderate-sized park-and-ride lot

42-617: The platforms to the inner tracks. This Pennsylvania train station-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ivy Ridge station Ivy Ridge station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Located at Umbria Street and Parker Avenue in Northwest Philadelphia , it serves the Manayunk/Norristown Line . The initial station was built in

49-542: Was included. SEPTA suspended service beyond Cynwyd in March 1986 because of deteriorating track conditions and concerns about the Manayunk Bridge ; a shuttle bus ran from Manayunk on the Manayunk/Norristown Line . In August SEPTA constructed the current platforms along the ex-Reading Norristown line down the bluff from the ex-Pennsylvania line. For a while, the park-and-ride lot sat unused until SEPTA erected

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