Wister station

Coordinates: 40°02′10″N 75°09′41″W / 40.0362°N 75.1615°W / 40.0362; -75.1615
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Wister
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Other information
Fare zone1
History
Opened1932
ElectrifiedFebruary 5, 1933[1]
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station
Germantown Chestnut Hill East Line Wayne Junction
Fishers
Closed 1992
Former services
Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station
Wingohocking Chestnut Hill Branch Fishers

Wister station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station at Ashmead and Rubicam Streets in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is named after the nearby Wister Street.

The station is in zone 1 on the

Reading Railroad tracks, and is 6.1 track miles from Suburban Station. In 2013, this station saw 55 boardings and 70 alightings on an average weekday.[2]

Reading Railroad built Wister station in 1932, and it is the last stop inbound on the Chestnut Hill East Line (toward Central Philadelphia) before

Lines.

References

  1. ^ "New Electric Schedule". The Scranton Times. February 4, 1933. p. 12. Retrieved August 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "SEPTA (May 2014). Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Service Plan. p. 62" (PDF). (539 KB)

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