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Miquon station
SEPTA Regional Rail station / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miquon station is a suburban commuter railroad station on the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line, located at River and Manor Roads in the Miquon section of Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the first station on the line outside Philadelphia.
![]() The Center City-bound platform and shelter at Miquon station | |||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||
Location | 1096 River Road Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania 19452 | ||||||||||||
Owned by | SEPTA | ||||||||||||
Line(s) | Norristown Branch | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Parking | 230 spaces | ||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 2 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | 1910 | ||||||||||||
Electrified | February 5, 1933[1] | ||||||||||||
Previous names | Lafayette | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2017 | 444 boardings 442 alightings (weekday average)[2] | ||||||||||||
Rank | 57 of 146 | ||||||||||||
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In FY 2013, Miquon station had a weekday average of 483 boardings and 452 alightings.[3]
The station is adjacent to a large office park (River Park I and II), which was redeveloped from a former paper mill in 1999.[4][5] As of April 2013, parking includes about 60 spaces adjacent to the tracks along River Road, and 170 spaces in the River Park II lot; the latter lot has been shrinking in size due to the expansion of a private school (AIM Academy) which leased most of the River Park II complex beginning in 2011.[6]
The station building on the outbound side is leased to an outside party and does not currently sell tickets. There is a shelter on the inbound side; connecting the two platforms is an official pedestrian crossing.
Miquon is expected to become a temporary turnback point for trains at times when the line is flooded by the Schuylkill River around Spring Mill and Conshohocken. A new remotely controlled interlocking has been built near the station for this purpose, as part of a project to install a modern cab signal system on the line.[7]