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Station Review #158: Richard Allen Lane (SEPTA)

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Richard Allen Lane is a SEPTA station on the Chestnut Hill West line located on Allen Lane in the West Mount Airy neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia.  History Richard Allen Lane was built sometime around the 1880s, though the exact time when during this is unknown. It's likely that the station was built as an infill station. The station was named after the road Allen Lane, which itself was named after local mansion owner William Allen. In 1890 or so, a depot was built at the station to accommodate a new influx of passengers from the at the time newly relocated Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.    In the 1990s, a project was put underway to rehabilitate this depot and station, the first part being to actually rehabilitate everything, with the second part to make the station accessible. Both of these were completed by 2011. The Allen Lane station was renamed to Richard Allen Lane station in 2017, after Allen Lane was rededicated to R...
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Station Review #157: Eddystone (SEPTA)

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Eddystone is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located at East 7th Street and Saville Avenue in Eddystone, PA. This station is a flag stop for the Wilmington-Newark Line. Eddystone is by far the least used station on the Wilmington-Newark Line and for the entire SEPTA Regional Rail network as a whole. Eddystone is unsurprisingly also a flag stop.  History      Eddystone station was most likely built in the 1870s, named after the Eddystone Print Works, which relocated there from Philadelphia in 1876. Said print works were named after the Eddystone Lighthouse near Plymouth, UK. In the 1890s, Eddington became an incorporated borough. Saville Avenue near the station was named after the man who founded the borough's wife's maiden name, in honour of her.        The height of this station was in the early 1900s, when the famous Baldwin Locomotive Company was established and had a factory very close by. At its peak, this factory produced mill...
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Station Review #156: County Line (SEPTA)

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County Line station is a station on SEPTA's M Line. This station is unique for being both within Delaware and Montgomery counties. For a long time, this station had been closed down due to the wooden platforms rotting to the point of unusability, and recently reopened to absolutely no fanfare whatsoever. Tour Train     County Line is the definition of a micro-station. It's hilariously small. Bench and map   That's basically all the amenities you get at this station. You don't even get lights for when someone inevitably uses this station at nighttime!  Accessible boarding plate There's an accessible bridge plate at this station, which doesn't have an accessible entrance. Why?  One of the sheds Like I said, this station is incredibly small. The staircase between the platform and station is wooden and incredibly daunting. I nearly had a panic attack going up them.  Southbound s...
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Station Review #155: 61st- Pine Loop (SEPTA)

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61st & Pine Loop is a bus loop located at 61st Street and Pine Streets in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The bus loop mainly has service from short turns of SEPTA's route 42 bus.  Tour 61st & Pine is an average SEPTA loop, being one of the ones that got remodeled in the 2000s-2010s. This loop in particular was remodeled from 2016 to 2018.  Bench and shelter Here, there's a lot of amenities: a bench, a shelter, a map (no schedules), a bike rack, an emergency call button, tactile strips, and a bathroom for the drivers.  The map  Rules and an emergency call button The bathroom Bus Connections There is one bus connection at 61st & Pine Loop: 46 - 63rd-Malvern to 58th-Baltimore: This is a vertical bus that acts a lot like a crosstown. It goes along 60th street, essentially linking Angora to Overbrook. This bus comes about once every 10-15 minutes, and is a blo...
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