Downingtown station

{{Short description|Rail station in Downingtown, Pennsylvania}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Downingtown

| type = Amtrak and SEPTA station

| style = SEPTA

| style2 = SEPTA Regional Rail

| symbol_location = septa

| symbol = septa

| image = Downingtown_Station_Pennsylvania_2018a.jpg

| image_size =

| image_caption = Station with downtown Downingtown in the background

| address = 159 Viaduct Avenue
Downingtown, Pennsylvania

| country = United States

| coordinates = {{coord|40.002545|-75.710363|type:railwaystation|display=inline}}

| line = Amtrak Keystone Corridor
(Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line)

| other = {{bus icon|12px|Suburban Bus}} SEPTA Suburban Bus: {{SEPTA bus link|135}}

| structure = Enclosed plexiglas shelters

| platform = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 3

| parking = 360 spaces (226 daily, 134 municipal)

| bicycle = 2 racks (4 spaces)

| mpassengers = {{rail pass box|system=Amtrak|passengers={{Amtrak ridership|Downingtown}} annually{{Amtrak ridership|citationPA}}|pass_year={{Amtrak ridership|date}}}}

{{Rail pass box|passengers=291 boardings
312 alightings
(weekday average){{cite web | title=Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update| publisher=SEPTA | date=June 2020 | url=https://planning.septa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FY-2021_Service_Plan_Update.docx | page=24 | access-date=March 11, 2022}}

|pass_year=2017|system=SEPTA|pass_rank=92 of 146 (SEPTA)}}

| opened = 19th century

| rebuilt = 1990s

| accessible = No

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#000 |zoom=15 }}

| electrified = January 15, 1938{{cite news |title=Pennsy Completes New Electric Link |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57808086/paoli-harrisburg-electric-january-15/ |accessdate=August 22, 2020 |work=The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader |date=January 15, 1938 |page=1|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| code = {{Amtrak code|DOW}}

| owned = Amtrak{{cite web|url=http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/RRDev/key_vol_1.pdf |title=Transportation Planning for the Philadelphia–Harrisburg "Keystone" Railroad Corridor |publisher=Federal Railroad Administration |accessdate=9 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521112835/http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/RRDev/key_vol_1.pdf |archivedate=May 21, 2011 }}

| zone = 4 (SEPTA)

| years1 = February 24, 1992

| events1 = Pennsylvania Railroad depot burned

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=Amtrak

|line1=Keystone Service|left1=Coatesville|right1=Exton

|line2=Pennsylvanian|nonstop2=yes

|system3=SEPTA|line3=Paoli/Thorndale|left3=Thorndale|right3=Whitford

}}

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=Amtrak

|line1=Keystone Service|note-mid1=Before 1988|left1=Coatesville|right1=Whitford|to-right1=Suburban Station

|line2=Pennsylvanian|left2=Lancaster|right2=Exton

|system3=SEPTA

|line3=Parkesburg|left3=Coatesville|right3=Whitford|note-left3=Closed 1996|note-mid3=Discontinued 1996

|system4=Pennsylvania Railroad

|line5=main|left5=Thorndale|right5=Woodbine

}}

}}

Downingtown station is a commuter and intercity passenger rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at West Lancaster Avenue & Stuart Avenue in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It is served by most Amtrak Keystone Service and SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line trains. Amtrak's Pennsylvanian does not stop here. In 2017, the average total SEPTA weekday boardings at this station was 291, and the average total SEPTA weekday alightings was 312.{{cite web |url=https://septa.org/strategic-plan/reports/FY%202020%20Annual%20Service%20Plan-update.WEB.pdf |title=Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Service Plan |publisher=SEPTA |pages=43–46}}