Miquon station

Miquon station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line, located at River and Manor Roads in the Miquon section of Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the first station on the line outside Philadelphia.

Miquon
The Center City-bound platform and shelter at Miquon station
Location	River & Manor Roads Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania
Owned by	SEPTA
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	230 spaces
Other information
Fare zone	2
History
Opened	1910
Electrified	February 5, 1933[1]
Previous names	Lafayette
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Ivy Ridge toward Penn Medicine Manayunk/​Norristown Line Spring Mill toward Norristown-Elm Street Shawmont Closed 1996 toward Penn Medicine
Former services Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Shawmont toward North Broad Norristown Branch Spring Mill toward Elm Street

In FY 2013, Miquon station had a weekday average of 483 boardings and 452 alightings.[2]

The station is adjacent to a large office park (River Park I and II), which was redeveloped from a former paper mill in 1999.[3][4] As of April 2013, parking includes about 60 spaces adjacent to the tracks along River Road, and 170 spaces in the River Park II lot; the latter lot has been shrinking in size due to the expansion of a private school (AIM Academy) which leased most of the River Park II complex beginning in 2011.[5]

The station building on the outbound side is leased to an outside party and does not currently sell tickets. There is a shelter on the inbound side; connecting the two platforms is an official pedestrian crossing.

Miquon is expected to become a temporary turnback point for trains at times when the line is flooded by the Schuylkill River around Spring Mill and Conshohocken. A new remotely controlled interlocking has been built near the station for this purpose, as part of a project to install a modern cab signal system on the line.[6]