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Station Review #181: Elwyn (SEPTA)

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Elwyn is a SEPTA station located on Elwyn Road in Elwyn, Pennsylvania, itself located in Middletown Township, in Delaware County. Elwyn Station is located on the Media-Wawa line and is a zone 3 station.   History The original Greenwood station     This station started out as Greenwood station, and was built for the Pennsylvania Training School, a school for children with Intellectual Disability, as well as other developmental disorders. The name was changed in the 1880s to better fit the fact that it was for the school. Considering the fact that the Pennsylvania Training School was named after Dr. Albert L. Elwyn, this seemed to work out well enough. To this day, people going to the Elwyn School  (which the school renamed itself to) is a decent chunk of the ridership.  Of course, the small village of Greenwood ended up renaming itself to Elwyn. Elwyn at this point was still rural, a small village built around the school and the station.  Th...

Station Review #162: Darby Transit Center (SEPTA)

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Darby Transit Center is a SEPTA transit center located near 9th Street and Main Street in the borough of Darby, Pennsylvania.  Available Routes These are the routes that go to Darby Transit Center: T3 - 13th-Market to Yeadon and Darby Transit Center: Formerly known as the 13, this trolley route is one of SEPTA's subway surface trolleys. Most T3 trolleys go to Yeadon, with only a few per day going past that to Darby. There are plans to make the T3 much more frequent past Yeadon, but they require large amounts of trackwork to even make possible.  T4 - 13th-Market to Darby Transit Center: This is another subway-surface trolley, this one going directly to Darby via Woodland Avenue/Main Street. This generally runs about once every 5-10 minutes on paper, but the actual frequency is essentially random. This is the main route of tthe transit center.  113 - Claymont Transit Center to 69th Street Transit Center: This bus runs from 69th Street Transit Center ...

Station Review #160: Warminster (SEPTA)

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Warminster station is a station located at 100 Station Drive in Warminster, PA. The station is the outbound terminus station for SEPTA's Warminster Line.  History Warminster station used to not exist. Instead it was served by two stations near where it originally was: Bonair and Johnsville. Bonair was at County Line Road while Johnsville was just past Street Road. Both of these were microstations that were originally closed in the 1960s when all diesel portions of the New Hope Line were closed, cutting the line back to Hatboro.    Warminster station was made to replace them in 1974. The methodology was that it was to be a large park and ride station near Street Road. Many people were moving into Warminster Township as it was being developed. These new residents did not know of the villages of Bonair or Johnsville, they just knew the area to be "Warminster", so that's what the new station would be named. In order for this to work, electrification was extend...

Station Review #145: Albany-Rensselaer (Amtrak)

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Albany-Rensselaer is an Amtrak station located on East Street in the city of Rensselaer, New York, though made to serve the nearby city of Albany.  Services The station serves these routes: Amtrak:  • Adirondack: Montreal - NYC via Plattsburgh. 1 train per day per direction •  Berkshire Flyer - NYC to Pittsfield, MA. This is a seasonal train, only operating once every few days, and on weekends only.  • Empire Service: NYC - Albany/Rensselaer - Niagara Falls. Eight trains run to NYC from Rensselaer, five from NYC to Rensselaer, and two all the way from NYC to Niagara Falls.  • Ethan Allen Express: NYC - Burlington (VT) via Albany/Rensselaer. 1 train per day per direction • Lake Shore Limited: This is essentially two trains in one, both with one train per day per direction. This is specifically Chicago - Boston and Chicago - NYC, and both split off at Albany-Rensselaer station.  • Maple Leaf: NYC - Toronto. One train a day per direction. Jointly o...