Villanova station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

This article is about the Regional Rail station on the SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line. For the station on the Norristown High-Speed Line, see Villanova station (Norristown High Speed Line).
Villanova
General information
Location308 North Spring Mill Road, Villanova, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°02′20″N 75°20′32″W / 40.0388°N 75.3422°W / 40.0388; -75.3422
Owned byAmtrak[1]
Operated bySEPTA
Line(s)Amtrak Keystone Corridor
(Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line)
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
ConnectionsBus transport SEPTA Suburban Bus: 106
Construction
Parking167 spaces (85 daily, 82 permit)
Bicycle facilities5 racks (10 spaces)
Other information
Fare zone3
History
Opened1890; 134 years ago (1890)[2]
ElectrifiedSeptember 11, 1915[3]
Passengers
2017466 boardings
447 alightings
(weekday average)[4]
Rank55 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Radnor
toward Thorndale
 Paoli/​Thorndale Line Rosemont
toward Temple University
Former services
Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station
Upton
toward Paoli
 Paoli Line Rosemont
toward Suburban Station
Location
Map

Villanova station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station on the campus of Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. It is in Radnor Township,[5] located on North Spring Mill Road (PA 320) near County Line Road and serves most Paoli/Thorndale Line trains.

The station building was originally built in 1890 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and is within the campus of Villanova University. The eastbound and westbound platforms are ground-level and are connected by an underground handicap accessible pedestrian tunnel running beneath the tracks (which replaced the old non-handicapped accessible tunnel in 2018[6]) The station building is also home to a small café called "Rosie's Coffee".[7] There are 167 parking spaces at the station, including SEPTA permit parking. This station is 12.0 track miles from Philadelphia's Suburban Station. In 2017, the average total weekday boardings at this station was 466, and the average total weekday alightings was 447.[8]

  1. ^ "Transportation Planning for the Philadelphia–Harrisburg "Keystone" Railroad Corridor" (PDF). Federal Railroad Administration. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 21, 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  2. ^ Existing Railroad Stations in Delaware County, Pennsylvania Archived October 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Electric Service Begins on the P.R.R." The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 12, 1915. p. 4. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  5. ^ "Township Map". Radnor Township. Archived from the original on 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  6. ^ "Villanova Station Improvements | Station & Loop Improvements | Rebuilding For The Future | SEPTA.org". septa.org. Archived from the original on 2015-12-07.
  7. ^ "Rosie's Coffee".
  8. ^ "Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). SEPTA. pp. 43–46.