The Fern Rock Transportation Center is a

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rail and bus station located at 10th Street and Nedro Avenue in the Fern Rock neighborhood of

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.SEPTA. Fern Rock Transportation Center.
/ref> Fern Rock serves as the northern terminus and yard for SEPTA's

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, as well as a stop for

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, and West Trenton Line. Four bus routes also serve the station. Fern Rock Transportation Center serves as the western terminus for the 28 and 70 bus routes. Fern Rock is also the northernmost terminus for the 4 and 57 bus routes.

Regional Rail platforms

Fern Rock Transportation Center serves the

, West Trenton Line, and the

. In FY 2015, there was a weekday average of 825 boardings and 792 alightings. The current

station at Fern Rock Transportation Center, located along the SEPTA Main Line, was built in March 1992 to accommodate Regional Rail commuters displaced during SEPTA's 1992/1993 Railworks reconstruction project. The new station replaced former

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stations Fern Rock and Tabor, respectively located north and south of the new station. It has high-level platforms and is handicap-accessible, being directly connected to the subway station by a ramp from the subway platform. While passengers can readily transfer between the Broad Street Line and the Regional Rail Lines at Fern Rock, such a transfer requires payment of a separate fare of the subway and regional rail, unless the rider possesses a SEPTA Trailpass, which can be used for travel on both subway and regional rail. A non-revenue track connection exists here between the SEPTA Regional Rail Lines and SEPTA's Broad Street Line. A train crash occurred here on January 27, 2009, injuring nine.

Broad Street platform

The Broad Street platforms at Fern Rock Transportation Center opened in 1956, when the line was extended north from the original northern terminus at Olney Terminal by the

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(PTC) and the City of Philadelphia. Fern Rock Transportation Center also hosts the yard and maintenance facilities for the Broad Street Line, and is the line's only above ground station. Fern Rock is the northern terminal for local and express trains on the line, as well as the special event service that extends express service to the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.

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trains generally only serve the station on Saturdays and during non-peak weekday hours.

Station layout

All tracks are located at ground level, with Regional Rail platforms oriented north-south and the Broad Street platform oriented east-west, part of a larger

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around the storage yard.

Image gallery

Fern Rock Rail Station.JPG, Regional Rail station Image:28Bus.JPG, SEPTA Route 28 Bus at Fern Rock Fern Rock BSL Station 2018.JPG, Station with BSL in front, Regional Rail in the back File:Fernrockrail.jpg, BSL Subway Cars at Fern Rock File:3D Anaglyph of Fern Rock Station.JPG, Stereo (3D) picture of outbound train platform at Fern Rock Station (red/blue glasses needed). File:Fern Rock Rail Station 2018a.JPG, Broad Street Line station File:Northbound Silverliner V at Fern Rock TC.jpg, Outbound Silverliner V at Fern Rock Transportation Center.

References

External links

SEPTA – Fern Rock Transportation Center (Regional Rail)

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