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Station Review #120: Wayne (SEPTA)

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Wayne is a station on SEPTA's Paoli-Thorndale line. The station is located at Station Road and Wayne Avenue in Wayne, PA. Wayne is a village located within Radnor Township, along Lancaster Avenue. Many people unfamiliar with the area tend to get Wayne and Wayne Junction stations mixed up. These are two different stations, though it is possible to get a one seat ride between both some times of the day.  Tour Comet car #2401, part of a Bomber train   Wayne is fully accessible, one of the best stations on the Paoli-Thorndale line for this reason alone .   Outbound platform Original platforms   Wayne is one of those stations where   it clearly was rebuilt, but the old station was historically significant enough to the town, so it remained.  Canopy Old outbound platform next to the new one   This two platform design is cool because it gives two extra emergency platforms, essential...

Station Review #115: 23rd-Venango Loop (SEPTA)

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23rd and Venango loop is a SEPTA bus loop located on 23rd Street, Venango Street, and Hunting Park Avenue in the Nicetown neighborhood of North Philadelphia.    Buses That Stop Here Two buses stop at 23rd-Venango Loop, they are:   33 - Penns Landing to 23rd-Venango: This is an L shaped route that links neighborhoods like Nicetown, Allegheny, Cecil B. Moore, Sharswood, Francisville, and Fairmount to Center City via 19th/20th Streets and 22nd Street.  This bus links 23rd-Venango Loop to Allegheny station on the Manayunk-Norristown Line 56 - 23rd-Venango or Bakers Centre to Torresdale-Cottman: This bus is a crosstown bus that goes along Erie and Torresdale Avenues. This bus links directly to the B1/B2/B3 at Erie Station and the L at Erie/Torresdale station Tour Some route 56 buses at the station   23rd-Venango is a small bus loop, though it doesn't really need to be all that large.  One of the shelters Each shelter has...

Station Review #112: Walnut Street (SEPTA)

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Walnut Street is a station on SEPTA's D1 and D2 lines. The station is located at Garretsford Road and Walnut Street in downtown Upper Darby, PA Tour Trolley Walnut Street is a generic trolley stop, not much interesting or important here. Not accessible, but the D1/D2 aren't accessible at all anyways.  Bench and platform Signpost I think there used to be a sign here advertising the new SEPTA Metro signage, but someone tore it down.  Inside the shelter This really is just a generic trolley stop. There is nothing special here to distinguish this stop from any other trolley stop along the combined D1-D2 line. Bus Connections Walnut Street Station has no bus connections, and it probably doesn't really need them. If you want to connect to a bus from the D1/D2, do it at 69th Street. In fact, none of the stations between Fairfield Avenue and Lansdowne Avenue have bus connections either. There is one...

Station Review #110: Cynwyd (SEPTA)

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Cynwyd is the outbound terminus for SEPTA's Cynwyd Line. The station is located at Montgomery Avenue and Conshohocken State Road in downtown Bala-Cynwyd, PA. Bala-Cynwyd is a census designated place within Lower Merion Township, PA. The Cynwyd Line is by far the least used SEPTA Regional Rail line. Only about six trains a day run on the Cynwyd Line, weekdays only.  Bala and Cynwyd were originally separate towns, unifying due to both sharing a post office. This is why Bala and Cynwyd both have their own train stations. History Cynwyd was originally a station along the Pennsylvania Railroad's Schuylkill Branch. The Schuylkill branch went parallel to Reading Railroad's Main Line. Cynwyd station was most likely originally built in 1880-1882, and then rebuilt in 1890 in a far more grand manner.    In the 1970s, most of the line west of Manayunk was abandoned. The line was re-extended to Ivy Ridge, and the Cynwyd line was operated as the R6, which paired it with the...