Angora (SEPTA Station)
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Angora station is a
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in
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. It serves the
Media/Wawa Line The Media/Wawa Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail service that runs from Center City Philadelphia west to Wawa in Delaware County. It uses the West Chester Branch, which connects with the SEPTA Main Line at 30th Street Station. Under the Pennsylva ...
and is officially located at 58th Street near
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in Southwest Philadelphia's Angora neighborhood, however the actual location is south of Baltimore Avenue. Part of Cobbs Creek Parkway runs along 58th Street from Baltimore Avenue, over the railroad bridge, to nearby Hoffman Avenue. In 2013, this station saw 36 boardings and 37 alightings on an average weekday, making it SEPTA's least used regional rail station. Angora station lies several blocks southeast of the
Angora Loop station 61st Street station is a SEPTA trolley stop in Philadelphia. It is located in the Angora neighborhood near where Baltimore Avenue (US 13) crosses Cobbs Creek into Delaware County. It is the western terminus of the SEPTA subway–surface trolley ...
, which is the western terminus of
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on the
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, a line that runs along Baltimore Avenue, three blocks north of the station.


Station layout

Angora has two low-level
side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...
s.


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External links


SEPTA – Angora Station1973 former Angora Station House photograph (Existing Railroad Stations in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania)

58th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
{{SEPTA Regional Rail stations SEPTA Regional Rail stations Stations on the West Chester Line Railway stations in Philadelphia