Fox Chase station

Fox Chase Station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located near the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase neighborhood, it is the current terminus of the former Newtown Line, as service was cutback to Fox Chase in 1983, in which trains to Newtown were suspended. This station has a large number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), which is the closest regional rail stop to Philadelphia's Fox Chase and Bustleton areas, and to Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County. It is also the closest station to the Fox Chase Cancer Center, which is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. The station has two tracks and passengers board and exit at ground level. There is a wheelchair ramp at the north end of the station, though it requires a request to the train staff to utilize. South of the station, the two tracks merge into one and shortly after, it crosses Oxford Avenue (PA 232) on the line's only grade crossing. Just north of the station, the now closed portion of the line crosses Rhawn Street at grade and continues into the woods although both tracks are now blocked off with bumper blocks before the road crossing. SEPTA rebuilt the station area and ticket office in Summer 2010, using funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. In FY 2017, Fox Chase station was the seventh busiest station in the SEPTA Regional Rail system, with a weekday average of 1,446 boardings and 1,091 alightings.

SEPTA Regional Rail station

Fox Chase
Fox Chase station in December 2012
General information
Location	442 Rhawn Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111
Coordinates	40°04′36″N 75°04′57″W / 40.076643°N 75.082487°W / 40.076643; -75.082487
Owned by	SEPTA
Line	Fox Chase Branch
Platforms	Spanish solution (2 side platforms, 1 island platform)
Tracks	2
Connections	SEPTA City Bus: 18, 24, 28
Construction
Parking	342 spaces
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	2
History
Opened	February 4, 1878[1]
Electrified	Yes
Passengers
2017	1,446 boardings 1,091 alightings (weekday average)[2]
Rank	7 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Ryers toward Penn Medicine Station Fox Chase Line Terminus
Former services Preceding station SEPTA Following station Ryers toward Reading Terminal Newtown Line Walnut Hill (closed 1983) toward Newtown Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Cheltenham toward Philadelphia Newtown Branch Huntingdon Valley toward Newtown
Location

Fox Chase Station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located near the intersection of Rhawn Street and Rockwell Avenue in the Fox Chase neighborhood, it is the current terminus of the former Newtown Line, as service was cutback to Fox Chase in 1983, in which trains to Newtown were suspended. This station has a large number of parking spaces of any on the line (342), which is the closest regional rail stop to Philadelphia's Fox Chase and Bustleton areas, and to Rockledge and Huntingdon Valley in Montgomery County. It is also the closest station to the Fox Chase Cancer Center, which is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The station has two tracks and passengers board and exit at ground level. There is a wheelchair ramp at the north end of the station, though it requires a request to the train staff to utilize. South of the station, the two tracks merge into one and shortly after, it crosses Oxford Avenue (PA 232) on the line's only grade crossing.

Just north of the station, the now closed portion of the line crosses Rhawn Street at grade and continues into the woods although both tracks are now blocked off with bumper blocks before the road crossing.

SEPTA rebuilt the station area and ticket office in Summer 2010, using funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.^[3] In FY 2017, Fox Chase station was the seventh busiest station in the SEPTA Regional Rail system, with a weekday average of 1,446 boardings and 1,091 alightings.^[4]

References

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1. ^ Baer, Christopher T. (June 2006). "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1878" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. p. 6. Retrieved January 24, 2025. Feb. 2, 1878 – Excursion with two trains of 10 cars each opens Philadelphia, Newtown & New York Railroad extension from Fox Chase to Newtown; revenue service begins Feb. 4; operated by PRR with through trains to West Philadelphia Station
2. ^ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
3. ^ Fox Chase is onboard with Plans for Train Station
4. ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014. (539 KB)

External links

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• Media related to Fox Chase (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons
• SEPTA – Fox Chase station