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Ardmore station (Pennsylvania)

Ardmore
Amtrak station
SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail station
Ardmore Station Pennsylvania.jpg
Location 75 Station Road and Anderson Avenue
Ardmore, PA 19003
Coordinates 40°00′30″N 75°17′25″W / 40.0083°N 75.2903°W / 40.0083; -75.2903Coordinates: 40°00′30″N 75°17′25″W / 40.0083°N 75.2903°W / 40.0083; -75.2903
Owned by Amtrak
Operated by Amtrak & SEPTA
Line(s) Keystone Corridor (Main Line)
Amtrak: SEPTA:
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 4
Connections Bus transport SEPTA City Bus: 44
Bus transport SEPTA Suburban Bus: 103, 105, 106, 115
Construction
Parking 196 spaces (109 permit, 87 public daily)
Bicycle facilities 3 racks (12 spaces)
Other information
Station code ARD (Amtrak)
Fare zone 2
History
Opened 1870
Rebuilt 1950s
Electrified September 11, 1915
Traffic
Passengers (2016) 68,274 Increase 10.9% (Amtrak)
Passengers (2012) 841 (weekday boardings) (SEPTA)
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA.svg SEPTA   Following station
toward Thorndale
Paoli/Thorndale Line
BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak
toward Harrisburg
Keystone Service
  Former services  
Pennsylvania Railroad
toward Chicago
Main Line
toward Paoli
Paoli Line
BSicon LOGO Amtrak2.svg Amtrak
toward Pittsburgh
Pennsylvanian
one Sunday eastbound train in 2011

Ardmore station is a train station in Ardmore, Pennsylvania served by Amtrak and SEPTA Regional Rail. It is on Amtrak's Keystone Corridor Main Line and serves most Keystone Service trains, as well as most SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line trains. One Sunday eastbound Pennsylvanian trip formerly stopped in Ardmore, but this service was ended on November 7, 2011, with the consolidation of the Monday-Saturday and Sunday eastbound Pennsylvanian trip into a daily trip. It is located at Station Road and Anderson Avenue in Ardmore and serves the western suburbs of Philadelphia. The station is a one-story brick building with a flat roof built in the 1950s, which replaced an 1870 building that burned down. There are plans to build a new transit-oriented development in the area, including a new station building.

The ticket office and waiting room at this station are open weekdays 6:10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. excluding holidays. An Amtrak QuikTrak machine is available when the station is open. SEPTA permit parking is available at the station, and the township provides additional metered parking in nearby lots.

This station is 8.5 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2011, the average total weekday SEPTA boardings at this station was 841 and the average total weekday SEPTA alightings was 834.

Nearby attractions include the Suburban Square shopping center, Ardmore Farmers Market, Brownie's 23 East, and other businesses in the downtown Ardmore shopping district along Lancaster Avenue.

Ardmore was the nearest station to the home of Stuart T. Saunders, the last CEO of both the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) until its 1968 merger with the New York Central and then of the Penn Central (PC) until its bankruptcy in 1976. Despite his proximity to the station, however, Saunders preferred to travel to his Philadelphia office by chauffeur-driven private car rather than riding his own trains. His detractors used this as an indication of both the inhospitable conditions of the train cars and management's detachment from the riding public.


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