Main Street station (SEPTA)

Main Street station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States. It serves the Manayunk/Norristown Line. It is one of the two stations on the short electrified branch to Elm Street in Norristown. The station has 76 parking spaces. It is located at Main and Markley Streets. In FY 2013, Main Street station had a weekday average of 189 boardings and 181 alightings.^[1]

Main Street
General information
Location	305 West Main Street Norristown, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40.1170°N 75.3488°W / 40.1170; -75.3488
Owned by	SEPTA
Line(s)	Norristown Branch
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	SEPTA Suburban Bus: 90, 91, 93, 131
Construction
Parking	92 spaces
Other information
Fare zone	3
History
Opened	December 30, 1873
Electrified	Yes
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Norristown–Elm Street Terminus Manayunk/​Norristown Line Norristown T.C. toward Penn Medicine
Former services Preceding station Lehigh Valley Transit Company Following station Elm Street via Rink station toward Allentown Liberty Bell High Speed Line Until 1951 Lafayette Street toward 69th Street Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Elm Street Terminus Norristown Branch Norristown toward Philadelphia
Location

History

The Stony Creek Railroad completed the Stony Creek Branch from Lansdale to Norristown on December 30, 1873. Its Norristown depot was located at Main and Markley.^[2][3][4] The connection south to the Norristown Branch opened in 1880.^[5] Main Street was also the last Lehigh Valley Transit Company stop on the Liberty Bell Limited (also known as the Liberty Bell High Speed Line) from Allentown to Philadelphia, turning onto Mount Airy Street going towards what is now the Norristown Transportation Center (formerly the Lafayette Street station) and formerly connected with the Norristown High Speed Line.^[6]

Notes

1. "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-12. (539 KB)
2. "New Railroad". Reading Times. January 1, 1874. p. 4. Retrieved June 4, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
3. Bean (1884), p. 748.
4. "Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania". Sanborn Map Company. February 1886. p. 3. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
5. Coates (1990), p. 66.
6. "Liberty Bell High Speed Line".

References

• Bean, Theodore Weber, ed. (1884). History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Vol. 2. United States: Unigraphic.
• Coates, Wes (1990). Electric trains to Reading Terminal. Flanders, NJ: Railroad Avenue Enterprises. OCLC 24431024.

External links

• SEPTA – Main Street station
• Original Norristown Main Street Reading Railroad Station
• Station from Main Street from Google Maps Street View