Fox Chase
Fox Chase station in December 2012
General information
Location442 Rhawn Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111
Coordinates40°04′36″N 75°04′57″W / 40.076643°N 75.082487°W / 40.076643; -75.082487
Owned bySEPTA
Line(s)Fox Chase Branch
PlatformsSpanish solution (2 side platforms, 1 island platform)
Tracks2
ConnectionsCity Bus SEPTA City Bus: 18, 24, 28
Construction
Parking342 spaces
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone2
History
ElectrifiedYes
Passengers
20171,446 boardings
1,091 alightings
(weekday average)[1]
Rank7 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Ryers
toward 30th Street Station
 Fox Chase Line Terminus
Former services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Ryers
toward Reading Terminal
 Newtown Line Walnut Hill
(closed 1983)
toward Newtown
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Cheltenham
toward Philadelphia
 Newtown Branch Huntingdon Valley
toward Newtown

Fox Chase station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located near the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase neighborhood, it is the current terminus of the Fox Chase Line. Fox Chase station, which has the largest number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), is the closest regional rail stop to Philadelphia's Fox Chase and Bustleton areas, and to Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County. It is also the closest station to the Fox Chase Cancer Center, which is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The station has two tracks and passengers board and exit at ground level. There is a wheelchair ramp at the north end of the station, though it requires a request to the train staff to utilize. South of the station, the two tracks merge into one and shortly after, it crosses Oxford Avenue (PA 232) on the line's only grade crossing.

Just north of the station, the now closed portion of the line crosses Rhawn Street at grade and continues into the woods although both tracks are now blocked off with bumper blocks before the road crossing.

SEPTA rebuilt the station area and ticket office in Summer 2010, using funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[2] In FY 2017, Fox Chase station was the seventh busiest station in the SEPTA Regional Rail system, with a weekday average of 1,446 boardings and 1,091 alightings.[3]

Station layout

P
Platform level
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
All trains ←      Fox Chase Line toward 30th Street (Ryers)
     Fox Chase Line alighting passengers only →
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
All trains ←      Fox Chase Line toward 30th Street (Ryers)
     Fox Chase Line alighting passengers only →
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Street level Exit/entrance, parking, buses

References

  1. ↑ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  2. ↑ Fox Chase is onboard with Plans for Train Station
  3. ↑ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
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