Chelten Avenue station

40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W / 40.0300°N 75.1812°W / 40.0300; -75.1812Owned bySoutheastern Pennsylvania Transportation AuthorityPlatforms2 side platformsTracks2Connections SEPTA City Bus: 26, J^[1]ConstructionParking24 spaces^[2]Bicycle facilities10 rack spaces^[2]AccessibleNo^[1]Other informationFare zone1^[1]HistoryOpenedJune 11, 1884 (1884-06-11)^[3]Rebuilt1915ElectrifiedMarch 22, 1918^[4]Passengers2017359 boardings, 307 alightings (weekday average)^[5]Rank75 of 146 Services

Preceding station	SEPTA			Following station
Tulpehocken toward Chestnut Hill West		Chestnut Hill West Line		Queen Lane toward Temple University

Former services
Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Tulpehocken toward Chestnut Hill Chestnut Hill Line Queen Lane toward Suburban Station Tulpehocken toward White Marsh Fort Washington Branch

Chelten Avenue station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located on West Chelten Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the Chestnut Hill West Line. The concrete station structure, part of a Pennsylvania Railroad grade-separation project completed in 1918 in conjunction with electrification of the line, was designed by William Holmes Cookman.^[6]

A station has been at this location since June 11, 1884. Known initially as Germantown, the 1918 station was named Chelten Avenue to avoid confusion with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad's Germantown. The original station building was a two-story stone structure at street level on the outbound side. Retained in that general location after the 1918 grade separation, it was demolished circa 1958, replaced by a small brick ticket office on the inbound side which remains in use today.^[7]

The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is 8.1 miles (13.0 km) from Suburban Station. It contains concrete-arch-covered staircases on all four corners of the Chelten Avenue Bridge over the tracks leading to the station platforms. In 2004, this station saw 441 boardings on an average weekday. Despite having high-level platforms, the station is not ADA accessible, as it lacks ramps or elevators from the street down to the platform level.

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Media related to Chelton Avenue station at Wikimedia Commons

• SEPTA – Chelten Avenue station
• Chelten Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View