Fox Chase station

{{Short description|SEPTA Regional Rail station}}

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{{Infobox station

| name = Fox Chase

| style = SEPTA

| style2 = SEPTA Regional Rail

| symbol_location = septa

| symbol = septa

| image = Fox Chase SEPTA station.jpg

| image_size =

| image_caption = Fox Chase station in December 2012

| address = 442 Rhawn Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111

| coordinates = {{coord|40.076643|-75.082487|type:railwaystation_region:US-PA|display=inline,title}}

| line = Fox Chase Branch

| other = {{bus icon|12px|City Bus}} SEPTA City Bus: {{SEPTA bus link|18|24|28}}

| platform = Spanish solution (2 side platforms, 1 island platform)

| tracks = 2

| parking = 342 spaces

| bicycle =

| passengers = 1,446 boardings
1,091 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

| pass_percent =

| opened = February 4, 1878{{cite web |last=Baer |first=Christopher T. |url=http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR1878%20June%2006.pdf|title=A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1878 |publisher=Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society |date=June 2006 |accessdate=January 24, 2025 |quote=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|page=6}}

| closed =

| rebuilt =

| electrified = Yes

| accessible = Yes

| code =

| owned = SEPTA

| zone = 2

| former =

| pass_rank = 7 of 146

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=SEPTA|line=Fox Chase|left=Ryers}}

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=SEPTA

|line1=Newtown|left1=Ryers|right1=Walnut Hill|note-right1=(closed 1983)

|system2=Reading Company

|line2=Newtown Branch|left2=Cheltenham|right2=Huntingdon Valley

}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#{{rcr|SEPTA|Fox Chase}} |zoom=14 }}

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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.[http://www.philly.com/community/pa/philadelphia/netimes/Fox_Chase_is_onboard_with_plans_for_train_station.html Fox Chase is onboard with Plans for Train Station] 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf |title=SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812142611/http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf |archivedate=2014-08-12 }} {{small|(539 KB)}}