Melrose Park station (SEPTA)

Not to be confused with Melrose/Cedar Park station.

Melrose Park station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. Located at the intersection of Valley Road and Mill Road, it serves the Lansdale/Doylestown, Warminster, and West Trenton lines.

Melrose Park
General information
Location	800 Valley Road Melrose Park, Pennsylvania 19027
Coordinates	40°03′34″N 75°07′45″W / 40.0595°N 75.1293°W / 40.0595; -75.1293
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	SEPTA Main Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	SEPTA City Bus: 28
Construction
Parking	185 space parking lot
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	2
History
Rebuilt	2005
Electrified	July 26, 1931^[1]
Previous names	Oak Lane^[2]
Passengers
2017	507 boardings 301 alightings (weekday average)^[3]
Rank	50 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Fern Rock T.C. toward Airport Airport Line Elkins Park toward Glenside Fern Rock T.C. toward 30th Street Station Lansdale/​Doylestown Line limited weekday service, no weekend service Elkins Park toward Doylestown Fern Rock T.C. toward Penn Medicine Warminster Line Elkins Park toward Warminster West Trenton Line limited weekday service Elkins Park toward West Trenton
Former services Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Fern Rock toward Philadelphia Bethlehem Branch Elkins Park toward Bethlehem New York Branch Elkins Park toward Bound Brook

Station

In June 2005, SEPTA completed a $5,336,000 project to upgrade Melrose Park station, including the installation of high-level, fully handicap accessible, platforms.^[4]

In FY 2013, Melrose Park station had a weekday average of 458 boardings and 481 alightings.^[5]

Service

The station is served by most weekday and weekend trains on the Warminster Line, limited weekday trains and all weekend trains on the West Trenton Line, and limited weekday trains and no weekend trains on the Lansdale/Doylestown Line.^[6]

Station layout

Melrose Park has two high-level side platforms.

References

1. "Reading Installs Electric Service". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 26, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.  
2. Existing Railroad Stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
3. "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
4. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-02. (2.39 MB)
5. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
6. "Glenside Combined schedule" (PDF). SEPTA. Retrieved May 15, 2017.

External links

  Media related to Melrose Park (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons

• SEPTA – Melrose Park station
• Valley Road entrance from Google Maps Street View