Philmont station

{{Short description|Railway station in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania}}

{{for|the former station in New York state|Philmont station (New York Central Railroad)}}

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

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

{{Infobox station

| name = Philmont

| style = SEPTA

| style2 = SEPTA Regional Rail

| symbol_location = septa

| symbol = septa

| image = Philmont_Station.JPG

| image_caption = Philmont station in August 2006

| address = Tomlinson Road and Philmont Avenue
Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania 19006

| coordinates = {{coord|40.1220|-75.0438|type:railwaystation_region:US-PA|display=inline,title}}

| line = Neshaminy Line

| other =

| structure =

| platform = 2 side platforms

| depth =

| levels =

| tracks = 2

| parking = 250 spaces (164 with permit)

| bicycle =

| passengers = 595 boardings
614 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 =

| closed =

| rebuilt = 1913

| years1 = March 17, 1913

| events1 = Station depot burns{{cite news |title=Philmont Station Burned |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33501177/philmont_station_march_18_1913/ |accessdate=July 3, 2019 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=March 18, 1913 |page=16|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| electrified = July 26, 1931{{cite news |title=Reading Installs Electric Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57809734/reading-electric-july-26-1931/ |accessdate=August 22, 2020 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 26, 1931 |page=8|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| accessible = yes

| code =

| owned = SEPTA

| zone = 3

| former =

| pass_rank = 39 of 146

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=SEPTA|line=West Trenton|left=Bethayres|right=Forest Hills}}

| other_services_collapsible = yes

| other_services_header = Former services

| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Reading Company|line=New York Branch|left=Bethayres|right=Forest Hills}}

| mpassengers =

| mapframe = yes

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

}}

Philmont station is a station along the SEPTA West Trenton Line to Ewing, New Jersey. It is located at Tomlinson Road & Philmont Avenue in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania. In FY 2013, Philmont station had a weekday average of 633 boardings and 574 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)}} The station has off-street parking and a ticket office. Philmont station was built in 1913 by the Reading Railroad after the previous depot caught fire on March 17 of that year.

Station layout

Philmont has two low-level side platforms with a mini high-level platform.

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