Fern Rock Transit Center

The Fern Rock Transit Center is a SEPTA rail and bus station located at 10th Street and Nedro Avenue in the Fern Rock neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.SEPTA. Fern Rock Transportation Center.
/ref> Fern Rock serves as the northern terminus and yard for the SEPTA Metro B, as well as a stop for SEPTA Regional Rail's Lansdale/Doylestown Line, Warminster Line, and West Trenton Line.

Four bus routes also serve the station. Fern Rock Transit Center serves as the western terminus for the 28 and 70 bus routes. Fern Rock is also the northernmost terminus for the 4 and 57 bus routes.

Regional Rail platforms

Fern Rock Transportation Center serves the Warminster Line, West Trenton Line, and the Lansdale/Doylestown Line. In FY 2015, there was a weekday average of 825 boardings and 792 alightings.

The current SEPTA Regional Rail station at Fern Rock Transportation Center, located along the SEPTA Main Line, was built in March 1992 to accommodate Regional Rail commuters displaced during SEPTA's 1992/1993 Railworks reconstruction project. The new station replaced former Reading Railroad stations Fern Rock and Tabor, respectively located north and south of the new station. It has high-level platforms and is handicap-accessible, being directly connected to the subway station by a ramp from the subway platform. While passengers can readily transfer between the Broad Street Line and the Regional Rail Lines at Fern Rock, such a transfer requires payment of a separate fare of the subway and regional rail, unless the rider possesses a SEPTA Trailpass, which can be used for travel on both subway and regional rail. A non-revenue track connection exists here between the SEPTA Regional Rail Lines and SEPTA's Broad Street Line. A train crash occurred here on January 27, 2009, injuring nine.

Broad Street platform

The Broad Street platforms at Fern Rock Transportation Center opened in 1956, when the line was extended north from the original northern terminus at Olney Terminal by the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) and the City of Philadelphia. Fern Rock Transportation Center also hosts the yard and maintenance facilities for the Broad Street Line, and is the line's only above ground station.

Fern Rock is the northern terminal for local and express trains on the line, as well as the special event service that extends express service to the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. Broad–Ridge Spur trains only serve the station all day Saturdays and during evenings on weekdays. All other Ridge Spur service (except Sundays when it doesn't operate) ends at Olney Transit Center.

Station layout

All tracks are located at ground level, with Regional Rail platforms oriented north-south and the Broad Street platform oriented east-west, part of a larger balloon loop around the storage yard.

Image gallery

Fern Rock Rail Station.JPG, Regional Rail station
Image:28Bus.JPG, SEPTA Route 28 Bus at Fern Rock
Fern Rock BSL Station 2018.JPG, Station with BSL in front, Regional Rail in the back
File:Fernrockrail.jpg, BSL Subway Cars at Fern Rock
File:3D Anaglyph of Fern Rock Station.JPG, Stereo (3D) picture of outbound train platform at Fern Rock Station (red/blue glasses needed).
File:Fern Rock Rail Station 2018a.JPG, Broad Street Line station
File:Northbound Silverliner V at Fern Rock TC.jpg, Outbound Silverliner V at Fern Rock Transit Center.

References

External links

Nedro Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

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SEPTA Regional Rail stations
SEPTA Metro B stations
Stations on the SEPTA Main Line
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1956
Railway stations in Philadelphia
Olney-Oak Lane, Philadelphia
Railways with Zig Zags