East Falls
East Falls station in December 2012.
General information
Location3600 Midvale Avenue
East Falls, Pennsylvania 19129
Coordinates40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W / 40.0114; -75.1920
Owned bySEPTA
Line(s)Norristown Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsCity Bus SEPTA City Bus: K
Other information
Fare zone1
History
Opened1856[1]
RebuiltNovember 18, 1912[1]
ElectrifiedFebruary 5, 1933[2]
Passengers
2017835 boardings
752 alightings
(weekday average)[3]
Rank21 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Wissahickon
toward Norristown–Elm Street
 Manayunk/​Norristown Line Allegheny
toward Penn Medicine
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Wissahickon
toward Pottsville
 Main Line 22nd Street
toward Philadelphia
Wissahickon
toward Elm Street
 Norristown Branch

East Falls station is a station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line in the East Falls section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at Midvale Avenue & Cresson Street and includes a 51 space parking lot. In FY 2017, East Falls station had a weekday average of 835 boardings and 752 alightings.[4]

Though little more than a pair of platforms with open shelters and a trailer, it serves as a replacement for a former Reading Railroad station[5] which was opened in 1912, and burnt down approximately in 1982.[6] It contains a staircase leading to Cresson Street and the station on the north side of the viaduct over Midvale Avenue, and a pedestrian crosswalk with a traffic signal exclusively for that crosswalk on the south side.

Station layout

P
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Inbound ←      Manayunk/​Norristown Line toward 30th Street or Penn Medicine (Allegheny)
Outbound      Manayunk/​Norristown Line toward Elm Street – Norristown (Wissahickon) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Street level Exit/entrance and parking

References

  1. 1 2 "East Falls Station Opened". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved July 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ↑ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ↑ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  4. ↑ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.  (539 KB)
  5. ↑ Images of former East Falls Reading Railroad station from 1912 and 1978
  6. ↑ Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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