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St. Davids is a station located at Chamounix Road in St. Davids, PA. St. Davids is a unincorporated place located entirely within Radnor Township, immediately next to Wayne. St Davids station is the second least used station on the Paoli-Thorndale line, behind Daylesford, as of 2017. History Very first station at St. Davids Originally, St. Davids was called East Wayne. The station was most likely built in the 1870s and renamed in the mid 1880's. It was renamed from East Wayne to St. David's at first to try to get people to use the station to get to the nearby St. David's Church (which is closer to Wayne station, ironically enough.) as a development scheme. It worked to some extent, and caused a new station building to be built.  This new station was built sometime before 1891, and lasted until 1966, when it was demolished due to disrepair. This building was then replaced by a newer building, though the canopies from the old building were ...

Drexel Manor is a station on SEPTA's D2 line. The station is located near but not at 356 Cheswold Road in the Garettsford neighborhood of Upper Darby, PA. This station is one block away from Garettsford station and Marshall Road station on either side. At this point, Drexel Manor only exists to serve an apartment complex. Tour One of the only ways you can get to this station is by a path that's between two houses. Much unlike Parkview , there is no lollypop sign announcing what's there, the path just exists.  Stairs on the path   Nothing is accessible at this station. In all fairness, the D1, D2, and T stations are unable to be made accessible due to having inaccessible vehicles. The shelter The station has one small shelter located on the 69th Street bound platform. Shelters of this variety are all along the D1, D2, and 103, and were most likely built while the lines were owned by Red Arrow. At some point, all of the roofs of...

Ardmore Junction is a station on SEPTA's M. The station is located on Hathaway Lane and Haverford Road in Ardmore. Or more specifically, the station is located where the M intersects with the Ardmore busway. This station serves both the M and the 103 bus.  History  Ardmore Junction was built in 1907 by the Philadelphia and Western Railroad, an interurban company that tried to make a line from Philadelphia to York but failed. This station was built at the junction of the P&W line and the Ardmore and Llanerch Street Railway. The A&L was later bought by Red Arrow, as was the P&W. Not super long afterwards in 1966, the Ardmore route was bustituted. The ardmore trolley almost wasn't bustituted, all that would have prevented that was if Red Arrow had two more trolleys to use. Red Arrow tried buying two more trolleys, but they had doors on the wrong side.  Much of the original route from Havertown to Ardmore was paved over and turned into a bu...

Sharon Hill is the outbound terminal station on SEPTA's D2 line, located on Chester Pike in the center of the streetcar suburb of Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania.  History Brillliner at Sharon Hill station The Philadelphia and West Chester Traction company built a line to the small village of Sharon Hill, PA in March 15th, 1906. Despite the changing of hands of the Sharon Hill Trolley, the station stayed remarkably similar to how it had always been.  Tour The station from the other side of Chester Pike Sharon Hill Trolley station is incredibly small, very similar looking to many of the other 102 stations.  The station building  Some of the D1 and D2 stations have very fancy shelters from the early 1900s, they look like small buildings, but they really are just shelters at the end of the day.   Bench  The inside of the shelter from the side   Clock   Pay Phone   ...