Miquon station

SEPTA Regional Rail station

Miquon

The Center City-bound platform and shelter at Miquon station

General information

Location

1096 River Road
Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania 19452

Owned by

SEPTA

Line(s)

Norristown Branch

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Construction

Parking

230 spaces

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

1910

Electrified

February 5, 1933^[1]

Previous names

Lafayette

Passengers

2017

444 boardings
442 alightings
(weekday average)^[2]

Rank

57 of 146

Services

Preceding station	SEPTA			Following station
Spring Mill toward Norristown–Elm Street		Manayunk/Norristown Line		Ivy Ridge toward Penn Medicine
Spring Mill toward Norristown–Elm Street		Manayunk/Norristown Line		Shawmont Closed 1996 toward Penn Medicine

Former services

Preceding station	Reading Railroad			Following station
Spring Mill toward Elm Street		Norristown Branch		Shawmont toward Philadelphia

Miquon station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line, located at River and Manor Roads in the Miquon section of Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the first station on the line outside Philadelphia.

In FY 2013, Miquon station had a weekday average of 483 boardings and 452 alightings.^[3]

The station is adjacent to a large office park (River Park I and II), which was redeveloped from a former paper mill in 1999.^[4]^[5] As of April 2013, parking includes about 60 spaces adjacent to the tracks along River Road, and 170 spaces in the River Park II lot; the latter lot has been shrinking in size due to the expansion of a private school (AIM Academy) which leased most of the River Park II complex beginning in 2011.^[6]

The station building on the outbound side is leased to an outside party and does not currently sell tickets. There is a shelter on the inbound side; connecting the two platforms is an official pedestrian crossing.

Miquon is expected to become a temporary turnback point for trains at times when the line is flooded by the Schuylkill River around Spring Mill and Conshohocken. A new remotely controlled interlocking has been built near the station for this purpose, as part of a project to install a modern cab signal system on the line.^[7]

References

^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
^ "River Park I". The Buccini/Pollin Group. Archived from the original on 5 November 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
^ "River Park II". The Buccini/Pollin Group. Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
^ "State of the School Report: Winter 2013". AIM Academy. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
^ "Manayunk/Norristown Line Shuttle Busing: An Explanation". SEPTA. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

External links

Media related to Miquon (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons

SEPTA – Miquon station
Station House from Google Maps Street View
Miquon Station House 2000 image by Mark Lehman (Existing Railroad Stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)

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