Lansdale station, also known as the Lansdale Transportation Center, is a

SEPTA Regional Rail The SEPTA Regional Rail system is a commuter rail network owned by SEPTA and serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its suburbs and satellite town ...

station in

Lansdale, Pennsylvania Lansdale is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a densely populated commuter town, with many residents traveling daily to Philadelphia using SEPTA Regional Rail's Lansdale/Doylestown Line. I ...

. Located at Main Street ( PA 63) and Green Street, it serves the

Lansdale/Doylestown Line The Lansdale/Doylestown Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail line connecting Center City, Philadelphia, Center City Philadelphia to Doylestown (SEPTA station), Doylestown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Until 1981, SEPTA diesel service, diesel-powered tr ...

. It was originally built in 1902 by the

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, opening on February 7, 1903; a freight house was added in 1909. Historically, the station hosted the ''

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'' (north to

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) and the ''Scranton Flyer'' (north to

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). Additionally, the station served commuter trains on the Reading's branch to

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until service was ended in 1981. The historic station building was listed on the

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in 2021. In FY 2013, Lansdale station had a weekday average of 1396 boardings and 1272 alightings. The station features a 178-space parking lot and a 660-space

parking garage A multistorey car park (Commonwealth English) or parking garage (American English), also called a multistorey, parking building, parking structure, parkade (Canadian), parking ramp, parking deck, or indoor parking, is a building designed fo ...

. The parking garage at Lansdale station opened on April 17, 2017, offering hundreds of additional parking spaces at the station. Lansdale station is near the SEPTA's 25 Hz Traction Power System plant, originally built by the RDG. The station interior was formerly home to an

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, and Italian deli called "A Little Something Nice". Lansdale station was formerly an important transfer point between electric and

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(RDCs) service to points north, such as Quakertown,

, and

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. RDC service on the

Bethlehem Line The Bethlehem Line was a SEPTA Regional Rail service on the former Reading Company Bethlehem Branch between Lansdale and Bethlehem. Some trains continued over the electrified Lansdale/Doylestown Line to the Reading Terminal in Philadelphia. Betwe ...

was eliminated in 1981 due to budget cuts. Proposals for service restoration to Quakertown have been floated around since the late 1990s, but nothing has gone past the discussion phase. Service restoration beyond Quakertown is no longer generally considered a feasible option, due to SEPTA's leasing of the railroad

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for use as an interim walking trail beyond Quakertown. The train station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 2021 as the Philadelphia & Reading Railway: Lansdale Passenger Station.National Register of Historic Places (Weekly List; December 16, 2021)
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File:Lansdale, Pennsylvania Train Station.jpg, Lansdale station in 2007 File:Lansdale SEPTA station waiting room.jpeg, Interior of station building File:Lansdale station garage entrance, July 2017.jpg, Parking garage

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Station from Main Street from Google Maps Street View
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Lansdale, Pennsylvania SEPTA Regional Rail stations Former Reading Company stations Railway stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Stations on the SEPTA Main Line Railway stations in the United States opened in 1903 National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania