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52nd Street station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Former train station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Field	Value
name	52nd Street
style	SEPTA	style2=SEPTA Former
image	Westbound train at 52nd Street station, July 1973.jpg
image_caption	Westbound train at 52nd Street station in 1973
address	North 52nd Street & Merion Avenue
borough	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
coordinates
line	Pennsylvania Main Line
Paoli Line
Schuylkill Branch
levels	2
structure	Elevated
opened	1902
closed	August 23, 1980
electrified	1930
owned	Pennsylvania Railroad
other_services_header	Former services
other_services	{{Adjacent stations	system1=Amtrak
line1	Silverliner Service	left1=Overbrook	right1=30th Street	note-mid1=One westbound trip only
system2	SEPTA
line2	Paoli/Thorndale	left2=Overbrook	to-left2=Downingtown	right2=30th Street	to-right2=Suburban Station
line3	Ivy Ridge	left3=Wynnefield Avenue	right3=30th Street
system4	Pennsylvania Railroad
line5	Schuylkill Branch	left5=Cynwyd	right5=Philadelphia
line6	Norristown Line	left6=Wynnefield Avenue	right6=Philadelphia
line7	Paoli Line	left7=Overbrook	right7=Philadelphia
line8	Paoli Line	left8=Overbrook	right8=40th Street
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	14
mapframe-marker-color	#888
mapframe-marker	rail

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52nd Street is a closed train station that was located at the intersection of North 52nd Street & Merion Avenue (just north of Lancaster Avenue (US-30)) in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) at the junction of its Main Line and its Schuylkill Branch. Today, these lines are the SEPTA Regional Rail Paoli/Thorndale Line and Cynwyd Line, respectively.

History

The abandoned 52nd Street station in 1999

At 52nd Street, the Main Line is on an embankment at-grade, while the Schuylkill Branch is on an elevated structure including a Parker through truss spanning 388 ft over the Main Line on an extreme skew. A lit sign informed inbound passengers which platform the next train to Center City, Philadelphia would depart from. Only a few trains in each direction stopped at this station, mostly serving reverse commuters heading out to jobs in the Main Line suburbs in the morning and returning home to the city in the evening.

Through merger and bankruptcy, the station and the trains serving it passed from the PRR to the Penn Central to Conrail (the later under contract to SEPTA). The first westbound morning trip of Amtrak's Silverliner Service also stopped at the station.

The station was burned by vandals on August 16, 1980. Conrail bused passengers until the 23rd, when SEPTA chose to outright close the station.

Proposals have been made to reopen the station, either in conjunction with projects such as the Schuylkill Valley Metro, or as part of community revitalization efforts.

References

Baer, Christopher T.. (April 2015). "A GENERAL CHRONOLOGY OF THE SUCCESSORS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY AND THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT: 1980-1989". Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society.
(April 29, 1973). "Amtrak All-American Schedules". Amtrak.
Spivey, Justin M.. (April 2001). "Pennsylvania Railroad, 52nd Street Bridge". Library of Congress.
(November 30, 1975). "All-America Schedules". Amtrak.
(April 5, 1995). "Improving the View". The Philadelphia Daily News.

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