Oreland station is a railroad station along the SEPTA Lansdale/Doylestown Line near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The station, located at the intersection of Bridge Street and Bruce Road, includes a 99-space parking lot. In FY 2013, Oreland station had a weekday average of 276 boardings and 256 alightings.[2] The current station was built by the Reading Railroad (RDG) in 1931, as a replacement for a station built in 1890.[3]
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 Oreland station in September 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Bridge Street & Pennsylvania Avenue Oreland, PA 19075 | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°07′05″N 75°11′02″W / 40.1181°N 75.1839°W | |||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | SEPTA | |||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | SEPTA Main Line | |||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | No | |||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1890 | |||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | July 26, 1931[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
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The RDG's former Plymouth Branch to Conshohocken begins behind the station via a wye track. Aside from a few hundred feet of track, the line to Conshohocken was abandoned by the RDG and Conrail in segments from the 1970s through the 1990s. The existing trackage was previously served by the Tank Car Corporation of America to store and rehabilitate railroad tank cars at their Oreland Mill Road property. Tank cars were buried underground to hold chemical waste from the fabrication, cleaning and painting of the working cars. The former site is currently undergoing a cleanup process being monitored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).[4]
Station layout edit
Oreland has two low-level side platforms.
References edit
- ^ "Reading Installs Electric Service". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 26, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014. (539 KB)
- ^ Existing stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
- ^ Malinowski, Nick (April 15, 2009). "Residents Grill EPA Rep Over Hazardous Waste Site in Oreland". Montgomery News. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
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