Jenkintown–Wyncote station

Jenkintown–Wyncote station (originally Jenkintown station) is a major SEPTA Regional Rail station along the SEPTA Main Line in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the intersection of Greenwood Avenue and West Avenue on the border of Jenkintown and the Wyncote neighborhood of Cheltenham Township, with a mailing address in Jenkintown. It is the sixth-busiest station in the Regional Rail system, and the busiest outside Center City. Despite this, the station is not wheelchair accessible. However, SEPTA has plans to make the station wheelchair accessible by 2020.

Jenkintown–Wyncote
Jenkintown-Wyncote station
Location	2 Greenwood Avenue Jenkintown, PA 19046, USA
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	SEPTA Main Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	SEPTA City Bus: 77
Construction
Parking	430-space parking lot
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	No
Other information
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	1859 (NPRR)
Rebuilt	March 24, 1932 (Reading)[1]
Electrified	1931
Previous names	Jenkintown
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Elkins Park toward Airport Airport Line Glenside Terminus Elkins Park toward 30th Street Station Lansdale/​Doylestown Line Glenside toward Doylestown Elkins Park toward Penn Medicine Warminster Line Glenside toward Warminster West Trenton Line Noble toward West Trenton
Former services Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Elkins Park toward Fern Rock Bethlehem Branch Glenside toward Bethlehem Terminus New York Branch Noble toward Bound Brook Preceding station Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Following station Wayne Junction toward Philadelphia Philadelphia – Jersey City Local West Trenton toward Jersey City
Jenkintown Wyncote Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Location	Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinates	40°5′35.52″N 75°8′16.8″W
Built	1872
Architect	Horace Trumbauer
Architectural style	Queen Anne
Part of	Wyncote Historic District (ID86002884)
NRHP reference No.	14001103[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 29, 2014
Designated CP	October 16, 1986

Station

Jenkintown–Wyncote station was originally built in 1872 by the North Pennsylvania Railroad,[3] and replaced in 1932 by the Reading Railroad. The 1932-built structure remains to this day,[4] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. It currently lies in fare zone 3 and includes a parking lot with 450 spaces.[5] The West Trenton Line branches off of the SEPTA Main Line at this station.

Service

This station is served by the Lansdale/Doylestown Line, Warminster Line, and West Trenton Line.[6] These three rail lines make Jenkintown-Wyncote the sixth-busiest station in SEPTA's Regional Rail system, and the busiest outside the City of Philadelphia, with 1998 average weekday boardings and 1660 average weekday alightings.[7]

Station layout

Jenkintown–Wyncote has two low-level side platforms connected by a tunnel underneath the tracks.

G
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Outbound	←      Airport Line toward Glenside (Terminus) ←      Lansdale/​Doylestown Line toward Lansdale, Link Belt, or Doylestown (Glenside) ←      Warminster Line toward Glenside or Warminster (Glenside) ←      West Trenton Line toward West Trenton (Noble)
	Inbound	→      Airport Line toward Airport (Elkins Park)→ →      Lansdale/​Doylestown Line toward 30th Street Station (Elkins Park) → →      Warminster Line toward Penn Medicine (Elkins Park) → →      West Trenton Line toward Penn Medicine (Elkins Park) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Street level	Exit/entrance, parking, and ticket office

Gallery

• 
  The structure on the inbound side of the station houses a ticket office and a former restaurant
• 
  Train at Jenkintown–Wyncote station in November 2013
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  View of Jenkintown–Wyncote station from outbound platform
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  A Center City-bound train on the Lansdale/Doylestown Line stops at Jenkintown–Wyncote station in November 2017
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  A Warminster-bound train on the Warminster Line stops at Jenkintown–Wyncote station in November 2017
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  A Center City-bound train on the West Trenton Line stops at Jenkintown–Wyncote station in November 2017
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  Greenwood Avenue Bridge

References

1. "New Jenkintown-Wyncote Station Opens". The Philadelphia Inquirer. March 25, 1932. p. 17. Retrieved July 3, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
3. 1892 photos of old Jenkintown NPAA Station by William Henry Jackson
4. Existing Railroad Stations in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
5. "SEPTA. "Jenkintown Station."". Archived from the original on 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2006-07-26.
6. "SEPTA (Mar. 28, 2007). "Combined Timetable."" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-19. (321 KB)
7. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)

External links

Media related to Jenkintown-Wyncote (SEPTA station) at Wikimedia Commons

• SEPTA – Jenkintown-Wyncote Station
• 2000 Mark Lehman photo
• Station from Google Maps Street View