Construction is progressing on a new Regional Rail station in Conshohocken, northwest of Philadelphia. According to SEPTA data, in 2017 the station saw an average of 771 daily boardings with 747 alightings, making it one of SEPTA’s busier regional rail stations. The new station will feature high-level platforms, a new canopy over the platform, and a new station building. Both the Schuylkill River Trail and the Manayunk Norristown Line track will be realigned for the project. New parking facilities will be included in the project. Construction costs are estimated at $13.25 million.
Map of the new station facility. Credit: SEPTA.
The current station sits by Fayette Street, between Stoddard Avenue and Washington Street. The new station will be located farther to the northwest so as to keep the current station functional while the new facility is being built. This is a construction tactic that SEPTA has used in many of their renovated regional rail stations. A similar example can be seen in Fort Washington where a new modern facility sits adjacent to the older station and features a design similar to the future Conshohocken station.
Future platform for the new Conshohocken Station. Credit: Colin LeStourgeon.
The concrete foundations for one of the future platforms have been installed at the site of the station. While the area around the future station has been blocked off for construction, the progress can still be observed from the Schuylkill River Trail.
View of future station (in foreground). Credit: Colin LeStourgeon.
While progress has been made, it appears construction has slowed down in recent months as the site looked fairly similar as far back as January. However, no announcements have been released suggesting the project has been delayed or cancelled, so the project will likely resume at a quick construction pace in the near future.
Current Conshohocken Train Station. Credit: Colin LeStourgeon.
The new station will be a welcome addition to the town as the current facility is out-of-date and has been in need of a refresh or replacement for some time. The current station does not include any high-level platforms and as a result is not an ADA-accessible facility. The station building is a beat-up trailer and is certainly not as desirable as a newer, more modern building will be.
The station is planned to be finished by Winter of 2022.
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Thanks for showing us progress of a much needed construction project as SEPTA has been less than forthcoming on its improvement plans due to the upcoming end of turnpike funding that has been paying for the bulk of SEPTA’s capital projects.
It’s time for SEPTA to consider dropping the extension to KOP mall as it will cost 2B and where will we find the money to build it in a hopelessly gridlocked Congress?
I would rather see Congress pass a transportation infrastructure improvement program for states to submit applications for critically needed transportation projects with the feds providing 80 percent and states and localities providing 15 and 5 percent toward their share. This would help SEPTA to pay for a lot of smaller projects like accessibility in new train stations. Bigger projects like subway extensions would be much harder to be awarded government funds than smaller projects and more jobs will be created.
The only subway line that makes sense is the Roosevelt Boulevard line.
One station is already built, the tunnel is there.
Just build it to serve the Northeast. 🙂
That would yield a bigger return of investment.
Brian, the subway station in the northeast was built underground before SEARS started building the garage in 1967. The city paid SEARS 1M to build the subway station before they built their parking garage.
Odd part of this is that voters had rejected a 70M bond issue to build the Northeast extension of the Broad Street subway due to the racist fear of having blacks migrate to the Northeast where they lived.
Nevertheless, the bond rejection did not stop the project as talks continued on how the subway proposal could be tweaked to make it more palatable to voters. Planners thought a way could be found to reassure people before a second bond proposal was sent to voters and SEARS was going to build a new parking garage and didn’t want to build the parking garage only to have the city tear it down for the subway station and this started talks between parties. In the end a deal was reached and the city paid SEARS 1M to build their subway station before the parking garage was built.
In the end, no subway was ever built and the parking garage was torn down after SEars imploded it’s complex of buildings
The subway station was demolished completely with everything carted away There is no subway station hidden under the parking lot.
Thanks for the update, James!
I am sad that some racist decided not to offer the residences a subway line to serve the Northeast.
When I think about the tremendous opportunity lost from such a selfish decision, it really is a shame!
Philadelphia is a great city that had lousy leadership.
SEPTA should be forced to use the incoming relief money for EXISTING infrastructure ONLY. They don’t need a line connecting Philadelphia to KOP. They always complain they don’t have enough money for what they have. If anything, they should start a light-rail light up Roosevelt Boulevard. They are waiting money if they implement a new line at the expense of existing infrastructure. I hope the state cuts them off COMPLETELY if they build a new PHL-KOP line.
Hi Kelly and welcome to the community! 🙂
Funding for a KOP line sounds absurd.
They don’t need it unless they can guarantee a positive return on investment.
A light rail line for the boulevard could lighten up the traffic if the proper funding were in place.
In fact, a Roosevelt Boulevard subway line would be a much more attractive option than KOP.