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Station Review #182: Garrettford (SEPTA)

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  Garrettford is a SEPTA station located at Edmonds Avenue and Jones Street in the Garrettford neighborhood of Upper Darby. The station is served by the D2 trolley.    History   Garrettford station was built as part of the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company's Sharon Hill line in 1906. Theine has changed hands multiple times since then but this station has stayed almost exactly the same. There used to be a parking lot next to the station, but it's since been abandoned.  Tour Trolley and the southbound platform. This station is a lot like other D2 stations on the line. Nothing is accessible here.   The shelter. Considering how old everything on the D2 line is, this shelter is probably around 125-126 years old.  The platform. Bike racks. Inside the shelter. The shelter has no benches or seating, which is unfortunately common for a lot of D2 stations.  Outdated signage and map. A lot of the signage here and at other D2 stations is outdated...
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Station Review #181: Elwyn (SEPTA)

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Elwyn is a SEPTA station located on Elwyn Road in Elwyn, Pennsylvania, itself located in Middletown Township, in Delaware County. Elwyn Station is located on the Media-Wawa line and is a zone 3 station.   History The original Greenwood station     This station started out as Greenwood station, and was built for the Pennsylvania Training School, a school for children with Intellectual Disability, as well as other developmental disorders. The name was changed in the 1880s to better fit the fact that it was for the school. Considering the fact that the Pennsylvania Training School was named after Dr. Albert L. Elwyn, this seemed to work out well enough. To this day, people going to the Elwyn School  (which the school renamed itself to) is a decent chunk of the ridership.  Of course, the small village of Greenwood ended up renaming itself to Elwyn. Elwyn at this point was still rural, a small village built around the school and the station.  Th...
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Station Review #180: Bristol (SEPTA)

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Bristol is a station along Beaver Street in Bristol, PA. This station has service from the Trenton Line, and is a zone 4 station.  History Old station The first Bristol station was built in 1834 as part of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, and was left until 1911, long after this railroad was absorbed into the Pennsylvania Railroad. This was demolished due to the tracks in the area being realigned and elevated. The second station, shown above, was built around then. Sometime around the late 1970s, the station was rebuilt and the old depot was sold off. Currently the depot is a daycare, though it once was a bagel shop.    Around 2022, SEPTA fenced off parts of the station due to the station beginning to crumble. The rebuilding of Bristol station is planned but currently in political limbo due to the Pennsylvania public transit funding crisis.  Tour Staircase This station has a lot of stairs, and no elevators or ramps.  Platform  ...
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Station Review #179: Glenview (Amtrak/Metra)

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Glenview is a station along the Chicago and Milwaukee Subdivision, located in Glenview, IL. The station is served by Amtrak and Metra trains. Glenview is a zone 3 station.  History The tracks through Glenview were laid down in 1871, to help rebuild Chicago. A station was added for the small village of Glenview not long after. This station was kept until the 1950s, when it was replaced. The current station replaced that station in 1995.  Service used to run on this from the Milwaukee Road, on its local commuter service between Milwaukee and Chicago. Service also once was ran by Amtrak on its Lake Country Limited, a train that was ran from Chicago Union station to Janesville. The Lake Country Limited only ran from April 15th, 2000 to September 23rd, 2001.  Services Multiple trains run here:  Amtrak: Borealis: This train runs from Chicago Union station to St. Paul-Minneapolis station. This runs one round trip a day, though a second round trip is ...
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