East Falls station

East Falls
SEPTA regional rail

The East Falls station in December 2012.
Location 3600 Midvale Avenue
East Falls, PA, 19129
Coordinates 40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W / 40.0114; -75.1920Coordinates: 40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W / 40.0114; -75.1920
Owned by SEPTA
Line(s)
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Other information
Fare zone 1
Electrified 1931
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
Manayunk/Norristown Line
toward Elm Street
  Former services  
Preceding station   Reading Railroad   Following station
toward North Broad
Norristown Branch
toward Elm Street

East Falls 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 2013, East Falls station had a weekday average of 625 boardings and 553 alightings.[1]

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[2] which was opened in 1912, and burnt down approximately in 1982.[3] 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.

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