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East Falls
East Falls station in December 2012.
General information
Location	3600 Midvale Avenue East Falls, Pennsylvania 19129
Coordinates	40°00′41″N 75°11′31″W / 40.0114°N 75.1920°W / 40.0114; -75.1920
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	Norristown Branch
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	SEPTA City Bus: K
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	1856
Rebuilt	November 18, 1912
Electrified	February 5, 1933
Passengers
2017	835 boardings 752 alightings (weekday average)
Rank	21 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Wissahickontoward Norristown–Elm Street Manayunk/​Norristown Line Alleghenytoward Penn Medicine
Former services Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Wissahickontoward Pottsville Main Line 22nd Streettoward Philadelphia Wissahickontoward Elm Street Norristown Branch
Location

East Falls station is a station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line in the East Falls section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at Midvale Avenue & Cresson Street and includes a 51 space parking lot. In FY 2017, East Falls station had a weekday average of 835 boardings and 752 alightings.

Though little more than a pair of platforms with open shelters and a trailer, it serves as a replacement for a former Reading Railroad station which was opened in 1912, and burnt down approximately in 1982. It contains a staircase leading to Cresson Street and the station on the north side of the viaduct over Midvale Avenue, and a pedestrian crosswalk with a traffic signal exclusively for that crosswalk on the south side.

References

1. ^ "East Falls Station Opened". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved July 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
4. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014.  (539 KB)
5. Images of former East Falls Reading Railroad station from 1912 and 1978
6. Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

External links

• SEPTA – East Falls station
• Midvale Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Station from Google Maps Street View

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