Ranya's Ramblings

Parkview is a station on SEPTA's Norristown High Speed Line, located in the Parkview neighborhood of Upper Darby. I ended up here by accident. I was trying to get to Township Line Road station, one stop north of this, but a weird predicament led to me having to get off here instead.  What's Even Here?  Very little, actually.  Path To get to the station itsef, you have to take a really long path from Parkview Road, which is very easy to miss, even with the small sign for it.  More Path Path but not accessible Alas, you eventually reach the station, and it's a mess.  Sign near the walkway, graffitied  The platforms are not very good either, as shown below:  Southbound platform They didn't even put a bench there!  Northbound Platform At least the southbound platform has somewhere to stand and be sheltered from the rain.  Bus Connections Bus stop that's over a mil

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

Tacony Station is a train station on SEPTA's Trenton Line, located in the Tacony neighborhood of Lower Northeast Philadelphia. The station is located next to Disston Park, while also being sandwiched next to a highway as well. History Old picture of the old Tacony Station building  Tacony station has a long and storied history. At first, Tacony sprung up as a town on the Delaware river, fueled by its importance to transportation in the area. You see, Tacony station existed as the end of the line for the southbound version of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, which was banned from going towards Kensington and ultimately Philadelphia. Thus, they created a ferry wharf very close to the station for ferries to Walnut Street dock in Philadelphia. This arrangement existed for about 40-50 years. During this time, Tacony was a major transportation hub. Sometime in the 1870s, the Philadelphia and Trenton railroad was bought by the Pennsylvania Railroad.  it was d