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Chelten Avenue station

Coordinates: 40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W / 40.0300°N 75.1812°W / 40.0300; -75.1812
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Chelten Avenue
SEPTA regional rail
General information
Location399 Chelten Avenue
(Chelten Avenue & Pulaski Street)
Philadelphia, PA, 19144
Owned bySEPTA
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Tracks2
Construction
Parking27 spaces
Other information
Fare zone2
History
Opened1915
Services
Preceding station   SEPTA   Following station
Template:SEPTA lines

Chelten Avenue Station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at 315 and 318-20 West Chelten Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station building was built in 1915 with William Holmes Cookman as the architect, according to the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings project.

The station is in zone 1 on the SEPTA R8 Chestnut Hill West Line, on former Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, and is 8.1 track miles from Suburban Station. It contains stone-arch covered staircases on all four corners of the Chelten Avenue Bridge over the tracks leading to the station platforms. In 2004, this station saw 441 boardings on an average weekday.


40°01′48″N 75°10′52″W / 40.0300°N 75.1812°W / 40.0300; -75.1812