The Paoli/Thorndale line will only operate between Center City and Malvern, while the Lansdale/Doylestown line will only operate between Center City and Lansdale. "[33], DVARP said that SEPTA purposely truncated service and that while other commuter railroad counterparts "in North America expand their rail services, SEPTA is the only one continuing to cut and cut and cut. R6 Ivy Ridge service was truncated to Cynwyd on May 17, 1986, due to concerns about the Manayunk Bridge over the Schuylkill River. SEPTA will end sales of paper tickets on the Regional Rail system on Oct. 2, 2020. While the agency has spent most of its 50-year history staggering from crisis to crisis, the 1980s were a particularly low point. WARMINSTER LINE (SEPTA Rail) The first stop of the WARMINSTER LINE train route is Warminster and the last stop is Temple University. Lansdale/Doylestown Line Regional Rail Schedule. Effective July 12, 2020. [27], Railpace Newsmagazine contributor Gerry Williams commented that understanding what routinely transpires in SEPTA upper management rarely made itself clearly known to the general public. [16] SEPTA had spent most of December 1982 preparing riders for the likelihood of no train service come the new year. This factor is regularly influenced by the changing political winds at the state capital in Harrisburg. Conrail provided commuter rail services under contract to SEPTA until January 1, 1983, when SEPTA assumed operations. On July 2, 2016, SEPTA announced all 120 Silverliner V cars were being removed from service due to a "serious structural defect." For a system that is already obsolete, any more cutbacks would be disastrous—and likely spell doom for transit in the Philadelphia region. Service to Chestnut Hill West was picked up by the R8. Paper tickets will continue to be accepted through the valid date stamped on the back and valid for 180 days from the purchase date. The transition from Conrail to SEPTA, overseen by General Manager David L. Gunn (who later became President of the New York City Transit Authority and Amtrak), was a turbulent one. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its suburbs and satellite towns and cities: Service on most lines operates from 5:30am to midnight. Positive Train Control; Schedules; System Status; Regional Rail COVID-19 Service Plan; Alternate Service; Train Suspended Or Significantly Delayed? [46] On the first day of the strike, Governor Tom Corbett asked President Barack Obama to appoint a presidential emergency board to attempt to end the labor dispute and force employees back to work. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Serving Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties Additional Regional Rail service changes are planned for March 2021.-via Press Release SEPTA adjusting service on six regional rail lines PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- SEPTA is making a number of changes starting today on the regional rails that could affect your trip. Passenger rail service was previously provided by for-profit companies, but by the 1960s the profitability had eroded, not least because huge growth of automobile use over the previous 30 years had reduced ridership. [37], The following chart shows SEPTA Regional Rail ridership from 1979–2019:[38][full citation needed][39][40][41][42][43][44], On June 14, 2014, a strike shut down SEPTA's Regional Rail service after negotiations failed between SEPTA and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. In 2016, the Regional Rail system had an average of 132,000 daily riders. Stops and their schedule times are listed in the columns. SEPTA suspended six Regional Rail lines and adjusted some routes when it implemented its Lifeline Service Schedule in April, as the region was in the thick of the pandemic. [27], In addition, unlike all other U.S. railroad commuter agencies which are a state agency operated as a leg of its corresponding Department of Transportation, SEPTA is not a state agency and is beholden primarily to the five local governments which comprise it. Reading began electrified operation in 1931 to West Trenton, Hatboro (extended to Warminster in 1974) and Doylestown; and in 1933 to Chestnut Hill East and Norristown. [14] In 1990, R5 service was extended from Downingtown to Coatesville and Parkesburg. The electrification on the Reading side is owned by SEPTA. Six lines are affected. SEPTA’s spring 2020 Regional Rail schedules take effect Sunday, impacting some weekday departure times on a majority of lines in an effort to “improve service reliability and on-time performance,” according to the transportation authority.Train adjustments could range from a … The success of the PSIC subsidy program resulted in its expanding throughout the five-county suburban area under the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Compact (SEPACT) in 1962. PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio)-- SEPTA is making a number of changes starting today on the regional rails that could affect your trip.Six lines are affected. and to attempt to avoid trains running full on one side and then running mostly empty on the other. Timetables are available in two formats - PDF and text HTML. [49] Service along the Lansdale/Doylestown and Paoli/Thorndale lines were also truncated to Lansdale and Malvern, respectively. Heretofore the Pennsylvania and Reading trains had terminated in their respective terminals. [16] This was not enough to reverse the deterioration of the railroad infrastructure. The rail lines below will CONTINUE IN OPERATION following the schedules in effect, except as noted below: The strike resulted in lower ridership, which took over 10 years to rebuild. It was re-established on October 5, 1981 as the Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line, which then ended on January 14, 1983.[16]. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Serving Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties [24] To correct this, Vuchich proposed the construction of a connection in the Swampoodle neighborhood between the ex-Pennsylvania Chestnut Hill West Line and the ex-Reading trunk line west of Wayne Junction as part of Stage 2, moving the Chestnut Hill West line to the "Reading" side. However, Conrail (the Reading before 1976) operated four SEPTA-branded routes under contract throughout the 1970s, all of which originated from Reading Terminal. [26], The 1980s and 1990s were difficult times for SEPTA. As the region responds to the COVID-19 outbreak, SEPTA Regional Rail continues to operate service according to the schedules as noted below: Thursday, April 9, 2020. Still, the subsidies could not save the big railroads. In 1967, the PRR took delivery of the St. Louis-built Silverliner III cars, which featured left-hand side controls (railroad cars traditionally have right-hand side controls) and flush toilets (since removed), and were used primarily for Harrisburg-Philadelphia service. This would reduce congestion at the downtown stations, as very few trains would terminate or originate at them, and reduce the number of potential passenger transfers as each train reached more destinations. With the launch of the SEPTA Key Card Travel Wallet feature for Regional Rail, the sale of paper tickets, single trip, and 10 trip strips ended October 2, 2020. [16] SEPTA, however, settled with the transit union shortly before its strike deadline, a move that rail unions took as a betrayal. Vukan Vuchic, the transit expert and University of Pennsylvania professor who designed the former R-numbering system for SEPTA, said he had never seen a city the size of Philadelphia "cut transit services quite as drastically as SEPTA. [16][34][35] Other Reading lines only came as far into the city as the Fern Rock Transportation Center, where riders had to transfer to the Broad Street Line. C. Suburban Station. [14] The railroad strike lasted 108 days, and service did not resume until July 3, 1983, when the last holdout union agreed to a contract to settle from the other rail unions.[16]. For the railroads, at first it was a matter of paying the existing railroad companies to continue passenger service. The Chestnut Hill East, Manayunk/Norristown, and Media/Elwyn lines resumed on June 28, 2020. Stage 1, which represented the state of affairs when the tunnel opened in 1984, was hampered by an "imbalance" between the Pennsylvania lines and Reading lines. At the airport, a new bridge carries it over Interstate 95 and into the airport terminals between the baggage claim in arrivals and the check-in counters in departures. [16], The unions then surprised SEPTA on March 15, 1983 by going on strike, still without contracts, in an action timed to coincide with an expected City Transit Division strike. To better view this picture, just click directly on it. He concluded that the crisis within SEPTA "merely reflects the broader problems of local provincialism and petty political squabbles which are so rampant within the region. "[29], On November 16, 1984, the Columbia Avenue (now Cecil B. Moore Avenue) bridge near old Temple University Station was found to be unsafe, putting all four tracks out of service north of Market East Station. [30] Service to Cynwyd ended altogether in 1988, but fierce political pressure brought resumed service. The continuing effects of COVID-19 on the Philadelphia region has forced SEPTA to adjust expectations for the return of regional rail riders and for restoring more train service. The connection converted Suburban Station into a through-station and rerouted Reading trains down a steep incline and into a tunnel that turns sharply west near the new Market East Station (now Jefferson Station). The bulk of the fleet are Silverliner IV coaches built by General Electric in Erie with carshells from Avco and Canadian Vickers; these were delivered in 1973–76, before the formation of Conrail. At the time, the Silverliner V cars represent one-third of SEPTA's regional rail fleet.[10]. [16] Full service was gradually restored over the next several weeks. SEPTA also owns two Arrow II EMU cars built by GE in 1974 and once operated by New Jersey Transit for its electrified service to and from New York City and Hoboken Terminal (formerly NJT 1236 and 1237). In 1976, Conrail took over the railroad-related assets and operations of the bankrupt PRR and Reading railroads, including the commuter rail operations. It can also represent the day of the week (weekday/weekend). When Conrail handled operations on SEPTA's behalf, overall ridership peaked in 1980 with over 373 million unlinked trips per year. The entire system uses 12 kV / 25 Hz overhead catenary lines that were erected by the PRR and Reading railroads between 1915 and 1938. Each train number has four digits (or three of the first digit is a zero). Lansdale/Doylestown Line Regional Rail Schedule. The idea of linking the Philadelphia and Reading lines with an urban tunnel was first adopted by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission in 1960, under the leadership of Edmund Bacon. In 2009, it was down 1% of this high, but by fiscal year 2013 ridership reached a new high of over 36 million. SEPTA to increase regional rail service beginning on Monday. In 1966 SEPTA had contracts with the PRR and Reading to continue commuter rail services in the Philadelphia region. SEPTA Regional Rail lines will begin some much-needed reconstruction work. [21], As part of the tunnel project SEPTA implemented a diametrical mode of operation. Construction is under way on a $177.9 million project that will enable SEPTA to restore service on the Media/Elwyn Regional Rail Line from its current terminus at Elwyn Station to Wawa. On the Regional Rail, SEPTA is suspending the Chestnut Hill East, Chestnut Hill West, Cynwyd, Manayunk/Norristown, West Trenton and Wilmington Newark lines. The Allentown via Bethlehem, Quakertown, and Lansdale service was gradually cut back. The SEPTA Regional Rail system (reporting marks SEPA, SPAX) is a commuter rail network owned by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and serving the Philadelphia Metropolitan area. The Reading filed for bankruptcy in 1971. Train Number. The SEPTA Regional Rail system (reporting marks SEPA, SPAX) is a commuter rail network owned by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and serving the Philadelphia Metropolitan area. An additional consideration was avoiding crossovers on the trunk lines. Both the R3 and R4 would short turn at Wayne Junction or Suburban Station (as would some R7 trains), which cut against the diametrical principle. You will need to have a Key Card and register it. [14] In response, the railroads made commuting unpleasant for passengers by neglecting the upkeep of equipment.[14]. 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Photo credit SEPTA. Lansdale/Doylestown Line service to Doylestown resumed on June 22, 2020. [16][36] In 1993, SEPTA added a loop track to Fern Rock Yard, so that northbound trains did not need to use the crossovers at the station throat, somewhat ameliorating the problem. Station Name Parameter; 9th Street Station: 9th St: 30th Street Station: 30th Street Station: 49th Street: 49th St: Airport Terminal A: Airport Terminal A: Airport Terminal B Additional information: WARMINSTER LINE has 13 stations and the total trip duration for this route is approximately 36 minutes. 3. Regional Rail ridership subsequently declined in 1982 after SEPTA ceased operating diesel service. Please enable Javascript in the browser settings, or use these links to plan a trip: Civil Rights Notices | The SEPTA Key is expanding to fully integrate all Regional Rail riders by the beginning of November, meaning no more weekly and monthly "legacy" trailpasses. As of March 2013, all 120 cars have been delivered, and are in service. Both railroads continued electrifying lines into the 1930s, replacing trains pulled by steam locomotives with electric multiple unit cars and locomotives. In 1990, the Reading-era "Blueliner" and PRR-era Pioneer III/Silverliner I coachers were retired. Find a Travel Alternate; Alternate Accessible Service Information; TrainView; Next To Arrive; Fares; Service to Philadelphia International Airport; Clickable Regional Rail & Rail Transit Map; QuietRide Car; Bike & Ride; Connecting Transit Services Regional Rail. SEPTA is making a number of changes starting Monday on the Regional Rails to accommodate some much-needed reconstruction work. Paper tickets will continue to be accepted through the valid date stamped on the back and valid for 180 days from the purchase date. The SEPTA Key card is a smart card that can be used for fares and passes on SEPTA's transit services and Regional Rail. [47], SEPTA Regional Rail operated "Lifeline Service" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key Cards and products can also be purchased from machines located at every subway/elevated … As of January 24, 2021, SEPTA will be operating 463 weekday trains and 218 weekend trains, which is approximately 57 percent of pre-pandemic Regional Rail service levels. Most inbound trains from one line continue on as outbound trains on another line. [51], The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company. Departing Arriving. As the January 1, 1983 deadline approached, the unions stated they agreed to work even if new union contracts were not in place by the new year. The notable exception was the line to Newtown, the Reading's only suburban route not electrified. Operations are handled by the SEPTA Railroad Division.[3]. [31][16] The service was initially terminated on July 1, 1981 (along with diesel services to Allentown and Pottsville) and reinstated on October 5, 1981, using operators from the city transit division. [45][46] As a result of the strike, SEPTA planned to add additional capacity on bus, subway, and trolley routes along with the Norristown High Speed Line during off-peak hours. In 1992, ridership dipped again due to economic factors and due to SEPTA's RailWorks project, which shut down half of the railroad over two periods of several months each in 1992 and 1993. A total of 120 new Silverliner V cars were built, with the first three entering service on October 29, 2010. The PRR attempted to stay solvent by merging with the New York Central Railroad on February 1, 1968, but the resulting company, Penn Central, went bankrupt on June 21, 1970. time of day, origin/terminal, and day of the week. Fares. (Some limited or express trains, and all trains on the Cynwyd Line, terminate on one of the stub-end tracks at Suburban Station.) The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its suburbs and satellite towns and cities. [16] Upon the completion of RailWorks, the Reading Viaduct became the "newest" piece of railroad owned by SEPTA, although other projects have since allowed improved service on the ex-Reading side of the system.[16]. SEPTA announced it added two regional rail lines back into service over the weekend and trains will run more frequently. Pairing up the rail lines based on ridership is less relevant today than it was when the system was implemented. R4 was dropped; The R5 Paoli runs local along its entire length most of the time, and Fox Chase became half of the R8. The first digit represents the origin/terminal. [28] The tunnel, first proposed in the 1950s, is an underground connection between PRR and Reading lines; previously, PRR commuter trains terminated at Suburban Station and Reading at Reading Terminal. [15] The PRR electrified the Paoli line in 1915, the Chestnut Hill West line in 1918, and the Media/West Chester and Wilmington lines in 1928. Commuter service requires large amounts of equipment, large numbers of employees to operate equipment and station sites, and large amounts of maintenance on track that see extremely heavy usage for only six hours a day, five days a week. While the PRR expanded electrification throughout the northeast (ultimately stretching from Washington, D.C. to New York City), the Reading never expanded electric lines beyond the Philadelphia commuter district. SEPTA Regional Rail service resumed on June 15. Paper tickets will continue to be accepted through the valid date stamped on the back and valid for 180 days from the purchase date. Faced with the possible loss of commuter service, local business interests, politicians, and the railroad unions in Philadelphia pushed for limited government subsidization. Regional Rail; Bus; Market-Frankford Line; Broad Street Line; Trolley Lines; Norristown High Speed Line; CCT Connect; Casino Service; Events; Official SEPTA App for iPhone; Official SEPTA App for Android [19] Such a tunnel would improve the connectivity of the network. But for many riders who get their weekly and monthly passes through … PSIC subsidized trains to Manayunk on the PRR's Schuylkill Branch[16] to Shawmont on the Reading Norristown line, to Fox Chase on the Reading Newtown line, and as far as Torresdale on the PRR's northeast corridor to New York City. They used an overhead catenary trolley wire energized at 11,000 volts single-phase alternating current at 25 Hertz (Hz). New Britain is a FLAG STOP. For the Accessible Transit Schedule, tab or click the link to navigate to the schedule. Ordered in March 2017 with options for 10 more cars. Most train equipment was either Budd Rail Diesel Cars, or locomotive-hauled push-pull trains with former Reading FP7s. ISEPTAPHILLY.com is a great tool for planning one's travels throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. SEPTA has four major yards and facilities for the storage and maintenance of regional rail trains: SEPTA was created to prevent passenger railroads and other mass transit services from disappearing or shrinking in the region. [16], A lawyer who regularly commuted from Newtown on the Fox Chase Rapid Transit line filed a class action lawsuit against SEPTA to force the agency to keep trains running. The death knell for any resumption of diesel service was the Center City Commuter Connection tunnel project, which lacks the necessary ventilation for exhaust-producing locomotives.[18]. Paper tickets will continue to be accepted through the valid date stamped on the back and valid for 180 days from the purchase date. [16] In 1958, the city enacted the Philadelphia Passenger Service Improvement Corporation (PSIC), which consisted of a partnership with the Reading and PRR to subsidize service on both Chestnut Hill branches. On the same date, service levels increased on all lines except the Chestnut Hill West and Cynwyd lines. SEPTA retired the Silverliner II and Silverliner III cars in June 2012 and replaced them with the Silverliner V model. Scroll to the right to see additional times . The Arrow II are used as part of work trains, such as catenary inspection and leaf removal. Regional Rail Conductor Engineer (Former Employee) - Philadelphia, PA - July 22, 2019 I worked as an assistant conductor for a year. Maps shared with officials showing possible Regional Rail cuts can't be found on SEPTA's website. SEPTA Regional Rail Train Numbering. All lines used by SEPTA are electrified with overhead catenary supplying alternating current at 12 kV with a frequency of 25 Hz. Now Zone 1 and 2 riders will officially be using the turnstiles, tapping their Key cards to “wake up” the Key for the ride. SEPTA Developers Real Time Data Static Data Beta. With insufficient operating funds and a desire to avoid maintaining deteriorating lines, SEPTA cut various services throughout the 1980s. Trains will only stop to pick up passengers who are visible on the platform. Each PRR line was once paired with a Reading branch and numbered from R1 to R8 (except for R4), so that one route number described two lines, one on the PRR side and one on the Reading side. Our Regional Rail Control Center can "see" all of the trains traveling on SEPTA territory in real time, so the status information on TrainView will also be real time. [46] A short time after 7 p.m. on June 14, President Obama signed an executive order forcing workers to return and continue negotiations through the presidential emergency board. When the suburbs expanded into what had been fields and pastures, the trip to the station required an automobile, leading commuters to remain in their cars and drive all the way into the city as a matter of convenience. To gradually accommodate Regional Rail riders to the new system, SEPTA Key turnstiles were put in place at the main stations months ago; then passengers were asked to start entering through the turnstiles and present their tickets there. Ever-growing use of the SEPTA Key is in full swing on Regional Rail trains. Williams questioned why there has never been any massive public push to force SEPTA to "clean up its act." [28] Nonetheless, the results of decades of deferred maintenance on the Reading Viaduct between the Center City Commuter Connection and Wayne Junction continued to threaten the right-of-way. R8 diesel service between Fox Chase and Newtown ended on January 14, 1983, after SEPTA decided not to repair failing diesel train equipment. The SEPTA Regional Rail system (reporting marks SEPA, SPAX) is a commuter rail network owned by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and serving the Philadelphia Metropolitan area. System Status. Service on most lines operates from 5:30 a.m. to midnight. [29] R3 West Chester service was truncated to Elwyn on September 19, 1986, due to unsatisfactory track beyond. Find a Travel Alternate. In 2000, ridership started a slight decline due to the slow economy, but in 2003 ridership started increasing again. As of 2012, all cars have a blended red-and-blue SEPTA window logo and "ditch lights" that flash at grade crossings and when "deadheading" through stations, as required by Amtrak for operations on the Northeast and Keystone Corridors. A current listing of who currently owns the regional rail stations to which SEPTA service is currently operated. [16] Even with the unions' offers to continue working, SEPTA insisted that a brief shutdown of service would still be necessary, arguing that it would not know until the eleventh hour how many Conrail employees would actually come to work for SEPTA. [citation needed], At a later time, R1 was applied to the former Reading side, shared with the R2 and R5 lines to Glenside, and R3 to Jenkintown, and R1-Airport trains ran to Glenside rather than becoming R3 trains to West Trenton. Please visit www.SEPTAKey.org to purchase passes (Daily, Weekly and Monthly). Between 1979 and 1983, diesel locomotives were phased out. [17] The final service, Fox Chase-Newtown service, initially ended on July 1, 1981. Service from Cynwyd was extended to a new high-level station at Ivy Ridge in 1980, and the 52nd Street Station closed in the same year. The new schedules focus on weekday service improvements and are designed to improve service reliability, on-time performance and to support a track rehabilitation project along the Lansdale/DoylestownLine. Each train number has four digits (or three of the first digit is a zero). For the Accessible Transit Schedule, tab or click the link to navigate to the schedule. The services were phased out due to a number of reasons that included lack of ridership, a lack of funding outside the five-county area, withdrawal of Conrail as a contract carrier, a small pool of aging equipment that needed replacement, and a lack of SEPTA-owned diesel maintenance infrastructure. SEPTA Regional Rail is the commuter rail system serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, … The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its suburbs and satellite towns and cities. Back in April, SEPTA shut down all Regional Rail lines to help stop the spread of COVID-19. June 30, 2020. 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