Olney (SEPTA Regional Rail Station)
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Olney station is a
SEPTA Regional Rail The SEPTA Regional Rail system is a commuter rail network owned by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and serving the Philadelphia Metropolitan area. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelp ...
station in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
. Located at Mascher Street and Tabor Road in the Olney neighborhood, it serves the
Fox Chase Line The Fox Chase Line SEPTA Regional Rail service connecting Center City Philadelphia with Fox Chase. It uses the Fox Chase Branch, which branches off from the SEPTA Main Line at Newtown Junction north of the Wayne Junction station. It runs entirel ...
. The station has a 61-space parking lot. In FY 2013, it had a weekday average of 158 boardings and 156 alightings. The original station building was constructed in 1906 by the
Reading Railroad The Reading Company ( ) was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and commercial rail transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states that operated from 1924 until its 1976 acquisition by Conrail. Commonly call ...
. It was boarded up in the 1980s, and was demolished in 2008. Olney is the last stop inbound before Wayne Junction, where it merges with the Warminster, West Trenton, Lansdale/Doylestown, and Chestnut Hill East lines.


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Current schedule for the SEPTA Fox Chase/Newtown lineOld Olney Reading RR Station images

Mascher Street and Tabor Road entrance from Google Maps Street View
SEPTA Regional Rail stations Former Reading Company stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1906 1906 establishments in Pennsylvania {{SEPTA-stub