Fox Chase (SEPTA station)
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Fox Chase
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| SEPTA regional rail station | ||||||||||||||||||||
Fox Chase Station, December 2012
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| Location | 442 Rhawn Street Philadelphia, PA 19111 |
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| Owned by | SEPTA | |||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 Spanish solution (2 side platforms, 1 island platform) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | SEPTA City Bus: 18, 24, 28 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | 342 Spaces | |||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
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Fox Chase is the current terminus of SEPTA's Fox Chase/Newtown Line. It is located just west of the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fox Chase Station, which has the largest number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), is the closest regional rail stop to the neighborhoods of Fox Chase, Bustleton, and Pine Valley, and Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. SEPTA rebuilt the station area and ticket office in Summer 2010, using funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[1] In FY 2013, Fox Chase station was the ninth busiest station, with a weekday average of 1378 boardings and 1327 alightings.[2]
Extended electrification
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Electrified service between Newtown Junction and Fox Chase Station was opened on September 25, 1966. In the late 1970s, there were plans to extend electrification to the line's actual terminus in Newtown, using funds supplied by both Montgomery and Bucks Counties. Had the electrification plans come to fruition, the Walnut Hill Station would have been closed, and trains would have operated non-stop from Fox Chase to Huntingdon Valley. Unfortunately, Bucks County was unable to come up with the needed funds, and electrification was put on hold indefinitely.
Newtown extension
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Before 1983, service continued northward via RDC passenger trains to a terminus in Newtown, Pennsylvania. The grade crossing at Rhawn Street still exists, but bumpers prevent trains from crossing.[3]
Service in the diesel-only territory north of Fox Chase was discontinued on January 13, 1983, due to failing diesel train equipment that SEPTA had no desire to repair. Although rail service beyond Fox Chase was replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus in 1983-1999, patronage remained light. Like British rail passengers victim of the 1960s-era Beeching cuts in the U.K., the traveling public never saw a bus service as a suitable replacement for a train service that operated more efficiently and quickly.[4] There are no plans to reinstate service, and Fox Chase remains the official end of the Newtown line.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Fox Chase is onboard with Plans for Train Station
- ↑ SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61 PDF (539 KB)
- ↑ Bumpers at former grade crossing of Rhwan Street at Fox Chase Station (Google Street View)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fox Chase (SEPTA station). |
- Current schedule for the SEPTA Fox Chase/Newtown
- SEPTA – Fox Chase Station
- Newtown Line.pa-tec.org – PA-TEC study on resuming SEPTA commuter service between Fox Chase and Newtown
- Picture of the old station building, circa 1961.
- Station from Rhawn Street from Google Maps Street View
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