Chelten Avenue station is a

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station in

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. Located on West Chelten Avenue in the Germantown neighborhood, it serves the

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. The

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station structure, part of a

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grade-separation project completed in 1918 in conjunction with electrification of the line, was designed by William Holmes Cookman. A station has been at this location since June 11, 1884. Known initially as Germantown, the 1918 station was named Chelten Avenue to avoid confusion with the

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's Germantown. The original station building was a two-story stone structure at street level on the outbound side. Retained in that general location after the 1918 grade separation, it was demolished circa 1958, replaced by a small brick ticket office on the inbound side which remains in use today. The station is in zone 1 on the Chestnut Hill West Line, on former PRR tracks, and is from

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. It contains concrete-arch-covered staircases on all four corners of the Chelten Avenue Bridge over the tracks leading to the station platforms. In 2004, this station saw 441 boardings on an average weekday. Despite having high-level platforms, the station is not

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accessible, as it lacks ramps or elevators from the street down to the platform level.

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Chelten Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
* {{Pennsylvania Railroad New York Division stations, state=collapsed SEPTA Regional Rail stations Former Pennsylvania Railroad stations Historic American Buildings Survey in Philadelphia Railway stations in the United States opened in 1884 Railway stations in Philadelphia