Temple University
TwoSilverliner IV trains entering Temple University station
General information
Location	915 West Berks Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°58′54″N75°08′58″W / 39.9816°N 75.1495°W /39.9816; -75.1495
Owned by	SEPTA
Line	SEPTA Main Line
Platforms	2island platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	SEPTA City Bus:3,23,47
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	CC[1]
History
Opened	1911 (1911)
Rebuilt	1992
Passengers
2017	3,191 boardings 2,682 alightings (weekday average)[2]
Rank	4 of 146
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Following station Jefferson Station towardAirport Airport Line Wayne Junction towardGlenside Jefferson Station towardChestnut Hill West Chestnut Hill West Line Terminus Jefferson Station towardWawa Station Media/Wawa Line Jefferson Station towardThorndale Paoli/​Thorndale Line Jefferson Station towardTrenton Trenton Line Jefferson Station towardNewark Wilmington/​Newark Line Jefferson Station toward30th Street Station Chestnut Hill East Line Wayne Junction towardChestnut Hill East Jefferson Station towardPenn Medicine Station Fox Chase Line Wayne Junction towardFox Chase Lansdale/​Doylestown Line North Broad towardDoylestown Manayunk/​Norristown Line North Broad towardNorristown–Elm Street Warminster Line Wayne Junction towardWarminster West Trenton Line Fern Rock towardWest Trenton
Former services (SEPTA) Preceding station SEPTA Following station Spring Garden Street towardReading Terminal Bethlehem Line Wayne Junction towardAllentown Chestnut Hill East Line Wayne Junction towardChestnut Hill East Newtown Line Wayne Junction towardNewtown Manayunk/​Norristown Line North Broad towardNorristown–Elm Street Lansdale/​Doylestown Line North Broad towardDoylestown Warminster Line Wayne Junction towardWarminster West Trenton Line Wayne Junction towardNewark Penn Station      Pottsville Line did not stop here
Former services (Reading) Preceding station Reading Railroad Following station Spring Garden Street towardPhiladelphia Main Line North Broad Street towardPottsville Bethlehem Branch North Broad Street towardBethlehem New York Branch North Broad Street towardBound Brook Norristown Branch North Broad Street towardElm Street Girard Avenue towardPhiladelphia Chestnut Hill Branch North Broad Street towardChestnut Hill
Track layout Legend  DOY  Norris St. Berks St.  WAW   THO  NWK
Location

Temple University station is an above-groundSEPTA Regional Rail station located at the eastern edge of theTemple University campus at 915 West Berks Street between 9th and 10th Streets, in theCecil B. Moore section ofLower North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[3] The station is in theCenter City fare zone, although the station itself is located in North Philadelphia.

There is a small ticket kiosk located at the base of the stairs on the street level. Temple University maintains a security kiosk at street level. Stairways and two elevators lead up to the high-level platforms at track level. There are twoisland platforms serving four tracks. Each platform is 380 feet (120 meters) long, long enough to platform four cars with only the end doors being used. The platforms have a canopy overhead and some wind-breaking walls but are otherwise exposed to the weather.

This station is located approximately 2.6 track miles fromSuburban Station. InFY 2005, Temple University station was the fourth busiest station in SEPTA's Regional Rail system, with 2,448 average total weekday boardings and 2,593 average weekday alightings.^[4] The station also has two large bicycle racks that both have roofs above them to protect bikes against the weather. The station can easily accommodate 30+ bicycles. The racks are also in full view of the 24-hour security guard.

Built in 1911, the old Temple University station achieved infamy in November 1984 when SEPTA was forced to shut down the Reading side of the railroad aboveNorth Broad Street Station. A few days after theCenter City Commuter Connection and Market East station (nowJefferson Station) fully opened, some of the girders supporting the tracks in the platform area on the bridge over the avenue were discovered to be in imminent danger of collapse. The emergency repairs, completed early in 1985, included demolishing the station and replacing it with temporary wooden low-level platforms and steel stairs which served until the new station opened. This event helped draw attention to the deterioration of North American railroad and transit infrastructure; the two-year-long RailWorks project which resulted would provide a permanent, modern station at a location more convenient to Temple's campus.

The station was opened in 1992 and was built for$37 million as part of SEPTA's RailWorks project to rebuild theReading Railroad viaduct in North Philadelphia. The station sits on the Reading side of the system and almost all trains stop here. The new station replaced the older Temple University station, which was originally named Columbia Avenue (a street since renamedCecil B. Moore Avenue). The old station, located at39°58′39″N75°08′59″W / 39.977465°N 75.149835°W /39.977465; -75.149835, had twoisland platforms serving all four tracks, but was served by only a few peak hour trains by the time SEPTA began operation of the railroad.

The station has twoisland platforms serving four tracks.

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  Norris Street entrance
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  Station platform facing north
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  Front entrance

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• SEPTA – Temple University station
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