Wister 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 Ashmead and Rubicam Streets in the Germantown neighborhood of

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. The station is named after the nearby Wister Street. The station is in zone 1 on the

Chestnut Hill East Line The Chestnut Hill East Line is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail (commuter rail) system. The route serves the northwestern section of Philadelphia with service to Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill. It is one of two lines that serve ...

, on former

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tracks, and is 6.1 track miles from

Suburban Station Suburban Station is an Art Deco office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center in Philadelphia. Its official SEPTA address is 16th Street and JFK Boulevard. The station is owned and operated by SEPTA and is one of the t ...

. In 2013, this station saw 55 boardings and 70 alightings on an average weekday. Reading Railroad built Wister station in 1932, and it is the last stop inbound on the Chestnut Hill East Line (toward Central Philadelphia) before Wayne Junction Station, where that line merges with the

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, West Trenton, Lansdale/Doylestown, and Fox Chase Lines.

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Station from Google Maps Street View
SEPTA Regional Rail stations Former Reading Company stations Wister, Philadelphia Railway stations in the United States opened in 1932 {{SEPTA-stub