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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...

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...

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...

Franklin Park is a station on METRA's MD-W line. The station is located on 25th Street and Pacific Avenue in Franklin Park, Illinois. This is not the Franklin Park station on METRA's NCS line, that is a different station that's nearby.  Tour Train at Franklin Park Platform If this was a SEPTA station, this would be horrible. But as a Metra station, these platforms are completely all right.  Ad posters and garden Many bike racks Schedule and map  Inside depot This would be far nicer with bathrooms, but is otherwise much better than anything you could find on most of SEPTA.  Parking meter Nearby 5 over 1 development  Countdown clock  Parking The station from afar Transit Connections Franklin Park has three transit connections: Metra NCS: This train goes from Chicago Union station to Antioch, IL via the CN W...