Ranya's Ramblings

King Ma- er I mean DeKalb Street is a station on SEPTA's P&W/route 100/Purple Line/Norristown High Speed Line/M line. The station is located on DeKalb Street in Bridgeport, PA, on the border with King of Prussia, in Upper Merion Township.  This station was originally named DeKalb Street, but its name was changed to King Manor, but in sometime around 2007 or so was renamed again to DeKalb Street.  Tour The station itself Much of the station itself is pretty standard for the M. This also means that the station is inaccessible despite having full level boarding. Making this station accessible would be very simple, there just need to be two new ramps to the station, alas that has not happened yet. What a sad bench Platforms, looking north towards Norristown  The northbound platform The other side of the southbound platform Train Map of the line itself Parking Consid...

49th Street is a station on SEPTA's Media/Wawa line. The station is located at 49th and Chester in Philadelphia's Kingsessing neighborhood. 49th Street is a Zone 1 station.  History The old 49th Street station  It's relatively unknown when there started being a train station in the location where 49th Street station is today. The station was known to have existed by 1886, and the line it was on started construction in 1852. The station did not originally exist at the time and most likely was added as an infill station in the 1860s or 1870s.  Any old station house in the area was most likely demolished in the 1950s-1960s, replaced by a few small shelters. Years later, some ramps and mini-high platforms were added to make the station accessible. Not much else has changed since then. Tour Path to the station  The shelter for the outbound platform For some reason, the shelter at the outbound platform is very far away from t...