Downingtown station

Downingtown

Amtrak station
SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail station

Philadelphia-bound platform at Downingtown Station.

Location

198 West Lancaster Avenue
and Stuart Avenue
Downingtown, PA 19335

Coordinates

40°00′09″N 75°42′37″W / 40.002545°N 75.710363°W

Owned by

Amtrak^[1]

Operated by

Amtrak & SEPTA

Line(s)

SEPTA:

Paoli/Thorndale Line

Amtrak:

Keystone Service

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Connections

Krapf's Transit Route A

TMACC Beeline Bus

Construction

Structure type

Enclosed plexiglas shelters

Parking

360 spaces (226 daily, 134 municipal)

Bicycle facilities

2 racks (4 spaces)

Other information

Station code

DOW (Amtrak)

Fare zone

4 (SEPTA)

History

Opened

19th century

Rebuilt

1990s

Traffic

Passengers (2015)

61,442^[2]

2.2% (Amtrak)

Passengers (2012)

359 (weekday boardings)^[3] (SEPTA)

Services

Preceding station		SEPTA	Following station
Thorndale Terminus		Paoli/Thorndale Line	Whitford toward Temple University
Coatesville Closed 1996 toward Parkesburg		Paoli/Parkesburg Line Discontinued 1996	Whitford toward Temple University
Amtrak
Coatesville toward Harrisburg		Keystone Service	Exton toward New York City
	Former services
Pennsylvania Railroad
Coatesville toward Chicago		Main Line	Whitford toward New York City or Exchange Place
Amtrak
Lancaster toward Pittsburgh		Pennsylvanian One Sunday eastbound trip terminated in 2011	Exton toward New York City

Downingtown is a commuter and intercity passenger rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at West Lancaster Avenue & Stuart Avenue in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It is served by most Amtrak Keystone Service and SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line, and until November 7, 2011 one Sunday eastbound Pennsylvanian trains.

The original Downingtown station was built in the 19th century by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and was destroyed by fire in the early 1990s. The foundation from the old station can still be seen today.^[4]

There is no ticket office at this station. There are 360 parking spaces for daily parking at the station–223 spaces are owned by SEPTA, and the remaining are part of an adjacent municipal lot. This is 32.8 track miles from Philadelphia's Suburban Station. Downingtown is the western-most Amtrak station on the Keystone Corridor that is also served by SEPTA's Paoli/Thorndale service. Additionally, the Krapf's Transit Route A and TMACC Beeline buses serve the station. In 2011, the average total weekday boardings at this station was 359, and the average total weekday alightings was 315.^[3]

References

↑ "Transportation Planning for the Philadelphia–Harrisburg "Keystone" Railroad Corridor" (PDF). Federal Railroad Administration. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 21, 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
↑ "Amtrak State Fact Sheet, FY2015, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (PDF). Amtrak. November 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
1 2 "Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Service Plan" (PDF). SEPTA. pp. 71–72. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
↑ Pennsylvania Railroad Stations Past and Present

External links

SEPTA – Downingtown Station

Coordinates: 40°00′09″N 75°42′37″W / 40.002545°N 75.710363°W / 40.002545; -75.710363

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