North Hills station

SEPTA Regional Rail station
  • Edge Hill
  • North Glenside
Key dates1978Station agent eliminated[2]Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Glenside
toward 30th Street Station
Lansdale/​Doylestown Line Oreland
toward Doylestown
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Glenside
toward Philadelphia
Bethlehem Branch Oreland
toward Bethlehem

North Hills station is a station along the SEPTA Lansdale/Doylestown Line. The station, located in SEPTA Fare Zone 3 at the intersection of Station and Mount Carmel Avenues, includes a 147-space parking lot. In FY 2013, North Hills station had a weekday average of 202 boardings and 219 alightings.[3]

The station was originally known as Edge Hill and was part of the original North Pennsylvania Railroad route between Philadelphia and Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania. Service began over this line on July 2, 1855.[4]

Station layout

North Hills has two low-level side platforms.

References

  1. ^ "Reading Installs Electric Service". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 26, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Barger, Theresa Sullivan (September 25, 1986). "New Life for the North Hills Station". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 16H. Retrieved October 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan." p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
  4. ^ Hare, Jay V. (1944). History of the North Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia: Reading Company. p. 6. OCLC 11885870.

External links

  • SEPTA – North Hills station
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