Yardley
Outbound train arriving in 2018
General information
LocationReading Avenue and Main Street
Yardley, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates40°14′06″N 74°49′52″W / 40.2351°N 74.8310°W / 40.2351; -74.8310
Owned bySEPTA
Line(s)Neshaminy Line
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Construction
Parking275
Bicycle facilities2 bike racks (4 total spots)
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone4
History
OpenedApril 27, 1876 (ceremonial service)[1][2]
May 1, 1876 (regular service)[3][2]
ElectrifiedJuly 26, 1931[4]
Passengers
2017349 boardings
328 alightings
(weekday average)[5]
Rank79 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Woodbourne
toward Penn Medicine
 West Trenton Line West Trenton
Terminus
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Roelofs
toward Philadelphia
 New York Branch West Trenton
toward Bound Brook

Yardley station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Yardley, Pennsylvania.[6] It is located at Main Street and Reading Avenue and serves the West Trenton Line to New Jersey.[6] The station has off-street parking. In FY 2017, Yardley station had a weekday average of 349 boardings and 328 alightings.[7] By August 2015, as a result of the SEPTA and CSX separation between Woodbourne and West Trenton stations,[8] 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.[9]

Station layout

Yardley consists of a single high-level side platform.

G
CSX track ← Trenton Subdivision freight service →
SEPTA track ←      West Trenton Line toward West Trenton (Terminus)
     West Trenton Line toward Penn Medicine (Woodbourne) →
Side platform, doors will open on the left or right
Street level Exit/entrance and parking

Bibliography

  • Poor, Henry Varnum (1865). Manual of the Railroads of the United States: Volume 27. H.V. & H.W. Poor.
  • Warner, Paul T. (May 1957). "Eight-Wheelers Between New York and Philadelphia 1870 - 1900". The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (96): 44–62. ISSN 0033-8842. JSTOR 43520154.

References

  1. ↑ "Opening a New Rail Route". The Lancaster Intelligencer. May 3, 1876. p. 2. Retrieved September 6, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. 1 2 Warner 1957, p. 53–54.
  3. ↑ Poor 1865, p. 711.
  4. ↑ "Reading Installs Electric Service". The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 26, 1931. p. 8. Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ↑ "Fiscal Year 2021 Service Plan Update". SEPTA. June 2020. p. 24. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  6. 1 2 SEPTA. "Yardley Station". Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Fiscal Year 2020: Annual Service Plan" (PDF). septa.org. SEPTA. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "SEPTA Train Service On West Trenton Line To Be Replaced By Shuttle Bus On Monday". LevittownNow.com. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  9. ↑ Warner 1957, p. 53.
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