Allegheny station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Allegheny station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line located at 22nd Street and Allegheny Avenue in the Swampoodle neighborhood of North Philadelphia.[3] It has also been known in Reading and early SEPTA timetables as 22nd Street or Twenty-Second Street, a name also shared by a former Pennsylvania Railroad station on the Trenton and Chestnut Hill lines. Allegheny station is the first station along SEPTA's Manayunk/Norristown Line not to be shared with any other line. In FY 2013, Allegheny station had a weekday average of 76 boardings and 102 alightings.[4]

For other places with the same name, see Allegheny station.
Allegheny
Allegheny station in December 2012.
Location22nd Street and Allegheny Avenue
Swampoodle, Philadelphia, PA
Coordinates40.0037°N 75.1650°W / 40.0037; -75.1650
Owned bySEPTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsSEPTA City Bus: 33, 60
Other information
Fare zone1
History
Opened1938[1]
ElectrifiedFebruary 5, 1933[2]
Previous names22nd Street
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
North Broad
toward Penn Medicine
 Manayunk/​Norristown Line East Falls
toward Norristown-Elm Street
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
North Broad
Terminus
 Norristown Branch East Falls
toward Elm Street

Station layout
P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Inbound ←      Manayunk/​Norristown Line toward 30th Street or Penn Medicine (North Broad)
Outbound ←      Manayunk/​Norristown Line toward Elm Street – Norristown (East Falls) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
G Street level Exit/entrance

References
  1. "Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". Pennsylvania Stations.
  2. "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Allegheny Station". SEPTA. Archived from the original on July 6, 2005.
  4. "Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). SEPTA. May 2014. p. 62. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.


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