The Chester Transit Center is a

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and

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station in

Chester, Pennsylvania Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the Philadelphia metropolitan area (also known as the Delaware Valley) on the western bank of the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware. ...

. The outside portion of the ground level serves SEPTA City Transit Division Route 37, and Suburban Transit Division Routes 109, 113, 114, 117, 118, and 119. Above the building of the transit center is the train station. The tracks run over the building. The station is served by the

Wilmington/Newark Line The Wilmington/Newark Line is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail system in the Philadelphia area. The line serves southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware, with stations in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, Wilmington, Delaware, and ...

. The line offers southbound service to Wilmington and

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and northbound service to

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. This station is located at 6th and Welsh Streets.

History

Chester station was built by the

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in 1903. While in the 1940s Chester was a common intermediate stop for services between New York and Washington, by the 1970s this was reduced to just one daily train; the station was also served by Amtrak's Chesapeake, which stopped both ways between Philadelphia and Washington during its existence from 1978 through 1983.1979 Amtrak Chesapeake timetable
All long-distance services have since stopped calling at Chester. PRR/PC/Conrail local trains to Marcus Hook/Wilmington/Newark continued until SEPTA took them over in 1983.

Station layout

Chester has two low-level

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s with walkways connecting passengers to the inner tracks.

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lines bypass the station via the inner tracks.

Gallery

Chester Transpo Center Stairway.jpg, Stairway to the rail platforms Chester Transpo Center tunnel.jpg, Tunnel under the tracks Chester Transpo Center interior.jpg, Interior of the station

References

External links

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Original Chester PRR Station

Welsh Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

Avenue of the States entrance from Google Maps Street View
{{Chester, Pennsylvania Former Amtrak stations in Pennsylvania SEPTA Regional Rail stations Stations on the Northeast Corridor Railway stations in Delaware County, Pennsylvania Railway stations in the United States opened in 1903 Chester, Pennsylvania 1903 establishments in Pennsylvania Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations Wilmington/Newark Line

History

Station layout

Gallery

See also

References

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