Penn Medicine station

Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine station platform
General information
Location3149 Convention Boulevard
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates39°56′52″N 75°11′25″W / 39.94784°N 75.19034°W / 39.94784; -75.19034
Owned bySEPTA
Line(s)West Chester Branch
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport SEPTA City Bus: 30, 40, 42, 49, LUCY
Construction
Bicycle facilities10 rack spaces[1]
AccessibleYes[2]
Other information
Fare zoneCC[3]
History
Opened1995 (1995)
Previous namesUniversity City
Penn Medicine–University City
Passengers
20172,605 boardings, 2,518 alightings (weekday average)[4]
Rank5 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Eastwick
toward Airport
Airport Line 30th Street Station
toward Glenside
49th Street
toward Wawa
Media/Wawa Line 30th Street Station
Darby
toward Newark
Wilmington/​Newark Line
Terminus Manayunk/​Norristown Line 30th Street Station
Warminster Line 30th Street Station
toward Warminster
West Trenton Line 30th Street Station
Location
Map

Penn Medicine station (formerly University City station) is a train station in the University City section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the SEPTA Regional Rail system. The station serves the area around the University of Pennsylvania, and is located at South Street and Convention Avenue. Located on the West Chester Branch, it serves the Airport, Wilmington/Newark, Media/Wawa, Manayunk/Norristown, Warminster, and West Trenton Regional Rail services. In 2013, this station saw 3,091 boardings and 2,950 alightings on an average weekday.[5]

The station is less than a block from the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field and the Palestra. It is one block away from the medical campuses of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The rest of the University of Pennsylvania campus, Drexel University campus, and the Graduate Hospital campus and the neighborhood across the Schuylkill River are also nearby and easily accessible.

  1. ^ "Penn Medicine Station". SEPTA. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  2. ^ "Wilmington/Newark Line Timetable" (PDF). SEPTA. April 16, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  3. ^ "Fare Zone Map" (PDF). SEPTA.
  4. ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  5. ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2017. (539 KB)