Merion station

{{Short description|Railroad station in Merion, Pennsylvania}}

{{For|the unincorporated community|Merion Station, Pennsylvania}}

{{Distinguish|Marion railway station}}

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

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Merion

| style = SEPTA

| style2 = SEPTA Regional Rail

| symbol_location = SEPTA

| symbol = SEPTA

| image = Merion Station Pennsylvania.jpg

| caption = Merion station house as seen from across the tracks in July 2005.

| address = 293 Idris Road

| borough = Merion, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| coordinates = {{coord|39.997375|N|75.251276|W|region:US-PA_type:railwaystation|display=inline,title|format=dms}}

| 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 }}

| operator = SEPTA

| line = Amtrak Keystone Corridor

| platform = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 4

| connections =

| parking = 87 spaces{{Cite web |title=Merion Station |url=https://www5.septa.org/travel/stops/merion-station/ |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=SEPTA |language=en-US}}

| bicycle = 24 rack spaces

| accessible = No

| zone = 2{{Cite web |date=April 16, 2023 |title=Paoli/Thorndale Line Timetable |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/schedules.septa.org/current/PAO.pdf |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=SEPTA}}

| opened =

| rebuilt = 1917

| electrified = 1915{{cite news |title=Electric Service Begins on the P.R.R. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57807526/paoli-electric-september-12-1915/ |accessdate=August 22, 2020 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=September 12, 1915 |page=4|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| pass_year = 2017

| passengers = 286 weekday boardings{{cite web |url=https://septa.org/strategic-plan/reports/FY-2019-Annual-Service-Plan.pdf |title=Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Service Plan |publisher=SEPTA |page=79}}

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=SEPTA|line=Paoli/Thorndale|left=Narberth|right=Overbrook}}

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations

|system1=Amtrak

|line1=Silverliner Service|left1=Narberth|right1=Overbrook|note-mid1=Stop dropped in 1979

|system2=Pennsylvania Railroad

|line2=Paoli Line|left2=Narberth|right2=Overbrook

}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail |marker-color=#{{rcr|SEPTA|Paoli/Thorndale}} |zoom=14 }}

}}

Merion station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station on the Paoli/Thorndale Line, located in Merion, Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia. Merion has two low-level side platforms with pathways connecting the platforms to the inner tracks.

History

The station building, constructed in 1917 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, is a designated historic station. It replaced an earlier structure built in the 1860s. It is one of the few historic stations to retain a complex of similarly-designed buildings: the passenger depot on the inbound side, and on the outbound side a still-active post office, outbound waiting room (now unused), and baggage building (also unused). SEPTA completed work to replace the station building's slate tile roof and renovate the outbound canopy in late 2007.

Amtrak stopped some westbound Silverliner Service trains at Merion until 1979.{{cite book |url=http://www.timetables.org/browse/?group=19790429&item=0022 |title=National Train Timetables: Effective April 29, 1979 |page=21 |date=April 29, 1979 |publisher=Amtrak |via=Museum of Railway Timetables}}

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