Ranya's Ramblings

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...

Help me Angora is the best station on the entire SEPTA Regional Rail network, if not in the entire northeastern US! I think the only station better than it is Hastings, on the MBTA!  The station is located in the Angora neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia, where the Media - Wawa line hits 58th street. Clearly, this is the best place to put a train station ever!  By the way, if you're wondering how this station could be so good that I'm saying it could possibly dethrone Hastings and Eddington in the contest of best designed stations in the northeastern US, just keep reading and you're going to find out what's there!  The Best Station Tour You Will Ever See NOTHING!  Clearly, this station has the most amenities of any station I've ever seen! So many amenities! You get an inaccessible platform, some stairs, a map, a trashbin, and nothing else! There are so many amenities that it makes a beautiful station like 30th St Station look like it ha...