Yardley 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
Yardley, Pennsylvania
Yardley is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Yardley borders the Delaware River and Ewing, New Jersey to its east and Lower Makefield Township to its north, west, and south. The United States Post Office assigns many addresses in Lower Ma ...
.
It is located at Main Street and Reading Avenue and serves the
West Trenton Line
The West Trenton Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail service connecting Center City Philadelphia to the West Trenton section of Ewing Township, New Jersey. With around 12,000 riders every weekday, it is the third busiest line in the SEPTA Regional R ...
to New Jersey.
The station has off-street parking. In
FY 2017, Yardley station had a weekday average of 349 boardings and 328 alightings. By August 2015, as a result of the SEPTA and CSX separation between Woodbourne and West Trenton stations,
the outbound platform was removed, and all SEPTA traffic was diverted onto the Inbound track. Currently, all SEPTA service between Yardley and West Trenton operates on the Inbound track only.
History
The station was originally built to be part of the Bound Brook branch of the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad (P&R). In 1874, it was announced that the P&R would build a line from
Jenkintown station to the Delaware River where it would have a bridge to connect it to the Delaware and Bound Railroad.
Station layout
Yardley consists of a single high-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 platform ...
.
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External links
SEPTA - Yardley StationFormer Yardley P&R StationFlickr images by "Roadgeek Adam"
{{SEPTA Regional Rail stations
SEPTA Regional Rail stations
Former Reading Company stations
Railway stations in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Railway stations opened in 1876
1876 establishments in Pennsylvania