North Hills station

SEPTA Regional Rail station

North Hills

General information

Location

Station & Mount Carmel Avenues
North Hills, PA 19038

Coordinates

40°06′44′′N 75°10′12′′W / 40.1122°N 75.1699°W / 40.1122; -75.1699

Owned by

SEPTA

Line(s)

SEPTA Main Line

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

2

Construction

Platform levels

1

Parking

147 spaces

Accessible

No

Other information

Fare zone

3

History

Opened

July 2, 1855 (1855年7月2日)

Electrified

July 26, 1931^[1]

Previous names

Edge Hill
North Glenside

Key dates

1978

Station agent eliminated^[2]

Services

Preceding station	SEPTA			Following station
Glenside toward Penn Medicine	Lansdale/Doylestown Line	Oreland toward Doylestown

Former services

Preceding station	Reading Railroad			Following station
Glenside toward Philadelphia	Bethlehem Branch	Oreland toward Bethlehem

Location
Map

North Hills station is a station along the SEPTA Lansdale/Doylestown Line. The station, located in SEPTA Fare Zone 3 at the intersection of Station and Mount Carmel Avenues, includes a 147-space parking lot. In FY 2013, North Hills station had a weekday average of 202 boardings and 219 alightings.^[3]

The station was originally known as Edge Hill and was part of the original North Pennsylvania Railroad route between Philadelphia and Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania. Service began over this line on July 2, 1855.^[4]

Station layout

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North Hills has two low-level side platforms.

References

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^ "Reading Installs Electric Service". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 26, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
^ Barger, Theresa Sullivan (September 25, 1986). "New Life for the North Hills Station". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 16H. Retrieved October 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan." p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2014. (539 KB)
^ Hare, Jay V. (1944). History of the North Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia: Reading Company. p. 6. OCLC 11885870.

External links

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SEPTA – North Hills station

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