Olney station (SEPTA Regional Rail)

Olney station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at Mascher Street and Tabor Road in the Olney neighborhood, it serves the Fox Chase Line. The station has a 61-space parking lot. In FY 2013, it had a weekday average of 158 boardings and 156 alightings.[1]

Olney
The parking lot and platform at Olney station on the Fox Chase Line
Location	Mascher Street and Tabor Road Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Owned by	SEPTA
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1 (SEPTA), 1 (Trenton Subdivision)
Connections	SEPTA City Bus: 8
Construction
Parking	61 spaces
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	1906 (RDG)
Electrified	yes
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Wayne Junction toward 30th Street Station Fox Chase Line Lawndale toward Fox Chase
Former services Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Wayne Junction Terminus New York Short Line Lawndale toward Neshaminy Falls

The original station building was constructed in 1906 by the Reading Railroad. It was boarded up in the 1980s, and was demolished in 2008.[2] Olney is the last stop inbound before Wayne Junction, where it merges with the Warminster, West Trenton, Lansdale/Doylestown, and Chestnut Hill East lines.

Station layout

P Platform level	Street level	Exit/entrance and parking
	Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
	SEPTA track	←      Fox Chase Line toward 30th Street (Wayne Junction) ←      Fox Chase Line toward Fox Chase (Lawndale) →
	CSX track	← CSX freight service →

References

1. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
2. Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Archived 2008-06-04 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Current schedule for the SEPTA Fox Chase/Newtown line
• SEPTA station page for Olney
• Old Olney Reading RR Station images
• Mascher Street and Tabor Road entrance from Google Maps Street View