Chester Transportation Center

SEPTA regional rail

Location

6th & Welsh Streets
Chester, PA 19013

Coordinates

39°50′58″N 75°21′36″W / 39.84932°N 75.35988°WCoordinates: 39°50′58″N 75°21′36″W / 39.84932°N 75.35988°W

Owned by

SEPTA

Line(s)

Wilmington/Newark Line

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Connections

SEPTA City Bus: 37

SEPTA Suburban Bus: 109, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119

Construction

Parking

Yes

Disabled access

Yes

Other information

Fare zone

History

Opened

1903

Services

Preceding station		SEPTA	Following station
Highland Avenue toward Newark		Wilmington/Newark Line	Eddystone toward Temple University
Lamokin Street (Closed 2003) toward Newark		Wilmington/Newark Line	Eddystone toward Temple University
	Former services
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lamokin Street toward Washington, D.C.		Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad	Ridley Park toward Philadelphia
Lamokin Street toward Wilmington		Wilmington Line	Eddystone toward Suburban Station

The Chester Transportation Center is a SEPTA bus and train station in Chester, Pennsylvania. The outside portion of the ground level serves SEPTA City Transit Division Route 37, and Suburban Transit Division Routes 109, 113, 114, 117, 118, and 119.

Above the building of the transportation center is the train station. The tracks run over the building. The station is served by the Wilmington/Newark Line. The line offers southbound service to Wilmington and Newark, Delaware and northbound service to Philadelphia. This station is located at 6th and Welsh Streets, Chester, PA 19013.

History

Chester station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1903. In the 1940s lots of NY-Washington trains stopped there; in 1970 one Philadelphia-Washington train stopped, and in 1978-83 Amtrak's Chesapeake stopped both ways between Philadelphia and Washington.^[1]^[2] PRR/PC/Conrail local trains to Marcus Hook/Wilmington/Newark continued until SEPTA took them over in 1983.

Stairway to the rail platforms
Tunnel under the tracks
Interior of the station

References

External links

Media related to Chester Transportation Center at Wikimedia Commons

SEPTA

City Transit Division	Market–Frankford Line Broad Street Line Subway–Surface Trolley Lines (Routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36) Route 15 Trackless trolleys (Routes 59, 66, and 75) City surface routes

Suburban Division	Norristown High Speed Line Routes 101 and 102 Suburban bus routes

Regional Rail	Main Line Airport Line Chestnut Hill East Line Chestnut Hill West Line Cynwyd Line Fox Chase Line Lansdale/Doylestown Line Manayunk/Norristown Line Media/Elwyn Line Paoli/Thorndale Line Trenton Line Warminster Line West Trenton Line Wilmington/Newark Line

Major stations	Chester Transportation Center Exton Transportation Center Frankford Transportation Center Fern Rock Transportation Center Jefferson Station King of Prussia Transit Center Norristown Transportation Center Olney Transportation Center Suburban Station West Chester Transportation Center 30th Street Station 69th Street Transportation Center Arrott Transportation Center

Former services	Route 6 trolley Route 23 trolley Route 50 trolley Route 53 trolley Route 56 trolley Route 60 trolley Route 103 trolley Route 104 trolley Bethlehem Line Cynwyd-Ivy Ridge service Elwyn-West Chester service Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line

Miscellaneous	Roosevelt Boulevard Subway SEPTA Transit Police Silverliner Station lists Regional Rail Ex-Regional Rail Rapid transit Trolley and Interurban Swampoodle Connection

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