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Station Review #194: Elkins Park (SEPTA)

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Elkins Park is a station on SEPTA's Glenside Combined Line, located in the Elkins Park subdivision of Cheltenham Township, PA.  History Originally, service in this area was from a nearby station on the NPRR named Old York Road. This station was closed in 1899, for the station currently standing. This new station was named Ashbourne. It was also known as Elkins, and later the name was formally changed to Elkins Park.  Today, one can still visit both of these stations, and the old station is currently a model railroad club.  Services Silverliner V on the West Trenton Line  Elkins Park is a station along the Glenside Combined services. However, there is not much of any real Glenside Combined Line trains. Every train is signed for one of the lines that interline.  The services that do this are as follows:  Lansdale-Doylestown Line: Center City to Lansdale or Doylestown. Peak service only, all other trains express between Fern Rock and Je...
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Station Review #193: Broadway/Walter Rand Transportation Center (NJT/PATCO)

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Broadway Station, also known as Walter Rand Transportation Center (which it will be called for the rest of this blog post) is an intermodal, interagency, station located on Broadway and Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey. Broadway is the name used by PATCO and Walter Rand Transportation Center is used by everyone else.  History Broadway Station in 1968 Broadway was originally a station created by the Camden and Atlantic Railroad in the 1860s or so. Information about the station from this point in time is very scarce. Eventually, this railroad and many others become parts of the Pennsylvania Railroad's West Jersey and Seashore Railroad subsidiary. in 1933, this station  became a station of PRSL, the main station for Camden commuter and intercity services. At the height of commuter rail, services operated to Atlantic City, Bay Head, Bridgeton, Cape May, Carney's Point, Millville, Quinton, Salem, Wildwood, Winslow Junction, and many oth...
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Station Review #192: Fernwood-Yeadon (SEPTA)

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Fernwood-Yeadon is a SEPTA station located along Church Lane in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. The station is served by the Media/Wawa Line, and is a Zone 2 station.  Tour Platform Fernwood-Yeadon is a small, minimalistic station. Even without the snow everywhere there just isn't that much there.  Shelter There is a shelter, but only one. The outbound side has absolutely nothing Inside the shelter Horrific stair structure Crossing Train Fernwood-Yeadon is a bad station but has absolutely nothing to write home about, which is exactly part of what makes it so bad. Bus Connections There are two bus routes that stop near Fernwood-Yeadon station:  68 - Broad-Oregon/UPS to 69th Street Transit Center: This bus runs between 69th Street TC and South Philadelphia. More importantly however, the 68 runs between both terminals and the UPS center. The 68 is essentially two buses stitched together, and this Frankenstein combination of a bus runs hourly. This b...
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