Chester Transportation Center

Preceding station	SEPTA			Following station
Highland Avenue toward Newark		Wilmington/​Newark Line		Eddystone toward Temple University

Former services

Preceding station Amtrak Following station Wilmington toward Washington, D.C. Chesapeake Philadelphia–30th Street toward Philadelphia–Suburban Preceding station Pennsylvania Railroad Following station Lamokin Street toward Washington, D.C. Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Ridley Park toward Philadelphia Lamokin Street toward Wilmington Wilmington Line Eddystone toward Suburban Station Preceding station SEPTA Following station Lamokin Street (Closed 2003) toward Newark Wilmington/​Newark Line Eddystone toward Temple University

Location

The Chester Transportation Center is a SEPTA bus and train station in Chester, Pennsylvania. 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 transportation center is the train station. The tracks run over the building. The station is served by the Wilmington/Newark Line. The line offers southbound service to Wilmington and Newark, Delaware and northbound service to Philadelphia.

This station is located at 6th and Welsh Streets.

History

Chester station was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad 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.^[4][5]

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 side platforms with walkways connecting passengers to the inner tracks. Amtrak's Northeast Corridor lines bypass the station via the inner tracks.

Gallery

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  Stairway to the rail platforms
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  Tunnel under the tracks
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  Interior of the station

See also

• New Brunswick station – built according to similar blueprints at about the same time

References

External links

Media related to Chester Transportation Center at Wikimedia Commons

• SEPTA – Chester Transportation Center
• Original Chester PRR Station
• Welsh Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Avenue of the States entrance from Google Maps Street View