Allegheny station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Allegheny
Allegheny station in December 2012.
General information
Location22nd Street and Allegheny Avenue
Swampoodle, Philadelphia, PA
Coordinates40°00′13″N 75°09′54″W / 40.0037°N 75.1650°W / 40.0037; -75.1650
Owned bySEPTA
Line(s)Norristown Branch
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsCity Bus SEPTA City Bus: 33, 60
Other information
Fare zone1
History
Opened1938[1]
ElectrifiedFebruary 5, 1933[2]
Previous names22nd Street
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
East Falls Manayunk/​Norristown Line North Broad
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
East Falls
toward Pottsville
Main Line North Broad Street
East Falls
toward Elm Street
Norristown Branch
Location
Map

Allegheny station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line located at 22nd Street and Allegheny Avenue in the Swampoodle neighborhood of North Philadelphia.[3] It has also been known in Reading and early SEPTA timetables as 22nd Street or Twenty-Second Street, a name also shared by a former Pennsylvania Railroad station on the Trenton and Chestnut Hill lines. Allegheny station is the first station along SEPTA's Manayunk/Norristown Line not to be shared with any other line. In FY 2013, Allegheny station had a weekday average of 76 boardings and 102 alightings.[4]

  1. ^ "Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania". Pennsylvania Stations.
  2. ^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Allegheny Station". SEPTA. Archived from the original on July 6, 2005.
  4. ^ "Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). SEPTA. May 2014. p. 62. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.