Sedgwick Station (SEPTA)
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Sedgwick station 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 at 253 East Mount Pleasant Avenue between Sprague and Devon Streets in
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. The old station building was built in 1882 with Furness & Evans as the architect, but was damaged in an arson fire around 1980 and demolished. The current station facility consists of low level platforms with open shelters. A walkway under the tracks was sealed off due to criminal activity. The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former
Reading Railroad The Reading Company ( ) was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in 1976. Commonly called the Reading Railr ...
tracks, and is 8.9 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 225 boardings and 279 alightings on an average weekday. 


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Mount Pleasant Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
SEPTA Regional Rail stations Frank Furness buildings {{SEPTA-stub