Miquon station

{{Short description|SEPTA Regional Rail station}}

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

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}}

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{{Infobox station

| name = Miquon

| style = SEPTA

| style2 = SEPTA Regional Rail

| symbol_location = septa

| symbol = septa

| image = Miquon Train Station Montco Planning Com.jpg

| image_size =

| image_caption = The Center City-bound platform and shelter at Miquon station

| address = 1096 River Road
Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania 19452

| coordinates =

| line = Norristown Branch

| other =

| structure =

| platform = 2 side platforms

| depth =

| levels =

| tracks = 2

| parking = 230 spaces

| bicycle =

| baggage_check =

| passengers = 444 boardings
442 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 =

| pass_system =

| opened = 1910

| closed =

| rebuilt =

| electrified = February 5, 1933{{cite news |title=New Electric Schedule |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57806419/norristown-chestnut-hill-electric/ |accessdate=August 21, 2020 |work=The Scranton Times |date=February 4, 1933 |page=12|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| accessible = No

| code =

| owned = SEPTA

| zone = 2

| former = Lafayette

| pass_rank = 57 of 146

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=SEPTA

|line1=Manayunk/Norristown|left1=Spring Mill|right1=Ivy Ridge

|line2=Manayunk/Norristown|left2=Spring Mill|right2=Shawmont|note-right2=Closed 1996

}}

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Reading Company|line=Norristown Branch|left=Spring Mill|right=Shawmont}}

| mpassengers =

| mapframe = yes

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

}}

Miquon station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line, located at River and Manor Roads in the Miquon section of Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the first station on the line outside Philadelphia.

In FY 2013, Miquon station had a weekday average of 483 boardings and 452 alightings.{{cite web|url=http://www.septa.org/reports/pdf/asp15.pdf |title=SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62 |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)}}

The station is adjacent to a large office park (River Park I and II), which was redeveloped from a former paper mill in 1999.{{cite web|title=River Park I|url=http://www.bpgroup.net/river-park-one.htm|publisher=The Buccini/Pollin Group|accessdate=3 April 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105015502/http://www.bpgroup.net/river-park-one.htm|archivedate=5 November 2011}}{{cite web|title=River Park II |url=http://www.bpgroup.net/river-park-two.htm |publisher=The Buccini/Pollin Group |accessdate=3 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520014458/http://www.bpgroup.net/river-park-two.htm |archivedate=20 May 2013 }} As of April 2013, parking includes about 60 spaces adjacent to the tracks along River Road, and 170 spaces in the River Park II lot; the latter lot has been shrinking in size due to the expansion of a private school (AIM Academy) which leased most of the River Park II complex beginning in 2011.{{cite web|title=State of the School Report: Winter 2013|url=http://www.aimpa.org/New/About/state.shtml|publisher=AIM Academy|accessdate=3 April 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727051050/http://www.aimpa.org/New/About/state.shtml|archivedate=27 July 2013}}

The station building on the outbound side is leased to an outside party and does not currently sell tickets. There is a shelter on the inbound side; connecting the two platforms is an official pedestrian crossing.

Miquon is expected to become a temporary turnback point for trains at times when the line is flooded by the Schuylkill River around Spring Mill and Conshohocken. A new remotely controlled interlocking has been built near the station for this purpose, as part of a project to install a modern cab signal system on the line.{{cite web|title=Manayunk/Norristown Line Shuttle Busing: An Explanation|url=http://www.septa.org/alert/man-nor-shuttle-details.html|publisher=SEPTA|accessdate=3 April 2013}}