Spring Mill station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the
SEPTA
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Manayunk/Norristown Line
The Manayunk/Norristown Line is a commuter rail service in Southeastern Pennsylvania, and one of the 13 lines in SEPTA's Regional Rail network. It has the fourth highest ridership and the highest operating ratio (58%) on the SEPTA Regional Rail ...
in
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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. Its official address is Station Avenue near Hector Street,
Conshohocken
Conshohocken ( ; Lenape: ''Kanshihàkink'') is a borough on the Schuylkill River in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in suburban Philadelphia. Historically a large mill town and industrial and manufacturing center, after the decline of industry in ...
(ZIP code 19428), but it is actually in the
Spring Mill section of
Whitemarsh Township. The station is located south of Hector Street, where North Lane deadends at the
Schuylkill River
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.
The original station was established 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 calle ...
about 1880, and took its name from the nearby
18th-century grist mill.
In
FY 2013, Spring Mill station had a weekday average of 378 boardings and 358 alightings. It has a 154-space parking lot, and is handicapped-accessible. The
Schuylkill River Trail
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passes next to the station.
Due to the proximity of the Schuylkill River and a pair of tributary streams, the station is periodically subjected to
flooding
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, resulting in the temporary suspension of all service on the Manayunk/Norristown Line.
A project to replace the line's signal system is underway in 2013 that is intended to confine future flooding closures on the line to the section above
Miquon station
Miquon station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line, located at River and Manor Roads in the Miquon section of Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the first station ...
, by allowing partial service further down the line instead of no service on the line at all.
Station layout
References
External links
SEPTA - Spring Mill Station
SEPTA Regional Rail stations
Former Reading Company stations
Railway stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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