Chestnut Hill East station

SEPTA Regional Rail station

Preceding station	SEPTA			Following station
Terminus		Chestnut Hill East Line		Gravers toward 30th Street Station

Former services

Preceding station	Reading Railroad			Following station
Terminus		Chestnut Hill Branch		Gravers toward Philadelphia

Chestnut Hill East station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Located at 102–04 Bethlehem Pike at Chestnut Hill Avenue, it serves the Chestnut Hill East Line. The current station building was built in 1931 by the Reading Railroad,^[3] as a replacement for an earlier station that existed between 1872 and 1930.^[4]

The station is in zone 2 on the Chestnut Hill East Line, on former Reading Railroad tracks, and is 10.8 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 433 boardings and 479 alightings on an average weekday.^[5] Chestnut Hill East is often confused with Chestnut Hill West, which is a SEPTA station a few minutes away from Chestnut Hill East's location. Boarding statistics, however, show greater usage of this line than of the Chestnut Hill West Line by Chestnut Hill residents.

Prior to rebuilding and electrification circa 1931, the stub terminal had three short passenger car tracks serviced by two platforms, a small engine terminal with a turntable, five-stall roundhouse and water tank, plus a few freight tracks serving storage buildings and a coal and lumber business.^[6]

References

^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Reading Plans Station". The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 21, 1931. p. 16. Retrieved October 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Chestnut Hill East station photos (Existing Stations in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania)". Archived from the original on 2008-06-04. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
^ Original Chestnut Hill Reading Railroad station postcard (Existing Stations in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania)
^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 61" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
^ Edwin P. Alexander. Model Railroads. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 1950. Pp. 38, 40-41.