Fox Chase station

40°04′36″N 75°04′57″W / 40.076643°N 75.082487°W / 40.076643; -75.082487Owned bySEPTALine(s)Fox Chase BranchPlatformsSpanish solution (2 side platforms, 1 island platform)Tracks2Connections SEPTA City Bus: 18, 24, 28ConstructionParking342 spacesAccessibleYesOther informationFare zone2HistoryElectrifiedYesPassengers20171,446 boardings
1,091 alightings
(weekday average)^[1]Rank7 of 146 Services

Preceding station	SEPTA			Following station
Ryers toward 30th Street Station		Fox Chase Line		Terminus

Former services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Ryers toward Reading Terminal Newtown Line Walnut Hill (closed 1983) toward Newtown Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Cheltenham toward Philadelphia Newtown Branch Huntingdon Valley toward Newtown

Fox Chase station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located near the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase neighborhood, it is the current terminus of the Fox Chase Line. Fox Chase station, which has the largest number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), is the closest regional rail stop to Philadelphia's Fox Chase and Bustleton areas, and to Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County. It is also the closest station to the Fox Chase Cancer Center, which is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The station has two tracks and passengers board and exit at ground level. There is a wheelchair ramp at the north end of the station, though it requires a request to the train staff to utilize. South of the station, the two tracks merge into one and shortly after, it crosses Oxford Avenue (PA 232) on the line's only grade crossing.

Just north of the station, the now closed portion of the line crosses Rhawn Street at grade and continues into the woods although both tracks are now blocked off with bumper blocks before the road crossing.

SEPTA rebuilt the station area and ticket office in Summer 2010, using funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.^[2] In FY 2017, Fox Chase station was the seventh busiest station in the SEPTA Regional Rail system, with a weekday average of 1,446 boardings and 1,091 alightings.^[3]

References

External links

• Media related to Fox Chase (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
• SEPTA – Fox Chase station