Olney station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Olney station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Mascher Street and Tabor Road in the Olney neighborhood, it serves the Fox Chase Line. The station has a 61-space parking lot. In FY 2013, it had a weekday average of 158 boardings and 156 alightings.[1]

Not to be confused with Olney Transportation Center.
Olney
The parking lot and platform at Olney station on the Fox Chase Line
LocationMascher Street and Tabor Road
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Owned bySEPTA
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1 (SEPTA), 1 (Trenton Subdivision)
Connections SEPTA City Bus: 8
Construction
Parking61 spaces
Other information
Fare zone1
History
Opened1906 (RDG)
Electrifiedyes
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Wayne Junction
toward 30th Street Station
 Fox Chase Line Lawndale
toward Fox Chase
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Wayne Junction
Terminus
 New York Short Line Lawndale
toward Neshaminy Falls

The original station building was constructed in 1906 by the Reading Railroad. It was boarded up in the 1980s, and was demolished in 2008.[2] Olney is the last stop inbound before Wayne Junction, where it merges with the Warminster, West Trenton, Lansdale/Doylestown, and Chestnut Hill East lines.

Station layout
P
Platform level		 Street level Exit/entrance and parking
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
SEPTA track ←      Fox Chase Line toward 30th Street (Wayne Junction)
←      Fox Chase Line toward Fox Chase (Lawndale) →
CSX track ← CSX freight service →

References
  1. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
  2. Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Archived 2008-06-04 at the Wayback Machine


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